In the last days of 2024, due to the influence of cold air, the Southern region continues to experience a decrease in temperature, dryness, and unseasonal rains. This creates favorable conditions for pests to attack the 2024-2025 winter-spring rice area.
In Can Tho, these days Mr. Dang Van Thanh (Thoi Lai district, Can Tho city) actively visits the fields, deploys spraying to prevent leaf blast disease, and destroys golden apple snails to protect the rice area.
During the winter-spring rice crop, this farmer sowed OM 5451 variety on 7,000 square meters of land. The impact of pests on the rice plants made him restless because of concerns about post-harvest yield.
"Near Tet, the weather turned cold, and the rice was infected with one disease after another. The infected area was not large, but every time it recurred, I had to spray pesticides continuously to limit damage and increase productivity after harvest," said Mr. Thanh.
In Hau Giang, the impact of leaf rollers and rats on Mr. Doan Van Chi's winter-spring crop has caused production costs to increase.
"Every 1-2 weeks, we spend a few hundred thousand or a few million dong to buy pesticides and fertilizers to increase the risk of diseases in rice. Tet is near, production costs are increasing, and even if we use the profits from the previous crop to make up for it, we won't have much left to celebrate Tet," said Mr. Chi.
According to the review of the Department of Agriculture of Hau Giang province, the area of winter-spring rice sown in the province up to this point is more than 62,000 hectares, rice is concentrated in the seedling and tillering stages. For pests on rice, farmers have managed well, not allowing them to arise and develop widely.
Faced with the impact of pests on rice, Hau Giang's agricultural sector recommends that farmers regularly visit their fields to promptly detect and prevent pests, especially in areas with dense sowing and excess nitrogen fertilizer; proactively monitor developments and forecasts of rain and floods to promptly respond to unusual developments...
In Can Tho, the city plans to plant 72,100 hectares of winter-spring rice in the 2024-2025 crop. The first sowing schedule is from November 3 to 9 and the second sowing is from November 25 to December 1.
The locality has arranged the crop season in combination with the measure of "sowing to avoid planthoppers, simultaneously, focusing on each area and each field", not sowing for a long time, not allowing many rice fields to be interwoven in the same field.
