Abandoned agricultural land has decreased significantly.
Kim Thanh district is considered one of the localities where the situation of abandoned fields has been significantly reduced. Talking to Lao Dong, Mr. Nguyen Van Nghiep - Head of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Kim Thanh district - said that the situation of abandoned land in the district has almost disappeared.
"In 2021 and 2022, the area of abandoned agricultural land in Kim Thanh district was about 15-20 hectares. However, from 2023 to 2024, the area of abandoned agricultural land will be only 1-2 hectares due to a number of projects that have been approved for investment but have not been implemented," said Mr. Nghiep.
Mr. Nguyen Van Nghiep added that currently, 36 organizations and individuals in some localities in the district have implemented the land accumulation model well. Some households have accumulated more than 30 hectares of land. Communes with many households accumulating land to carry out concentrated rice production such as Dai Duc, Ngu Phuc, Kim Anh, Co Dung...
Similarly, in Tu Ky district, the waste of agricultural land has also decreased significantly. According to Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan - Head of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Tu Ky district, the high price of food in the market has increased the income of the people. Therefore, the farmers are interested in producing crops and growing rice. The waste of agricultural land has decreased significantly compared to previous years.
Currently, Tu Ky district has 15/23 communes and towns implementing the land accumulation model with a scale of 3 hectares or more; attracting 1 organization and 56 individuals to participate, with a total area of 485.3 hectares, significantly reducing the area of abandoned fields, bringing efficiency to producers and preventing waste of land resources.
Encourage farmers to return to production
According to a representative of the Department of Cultivation and Plant Protection of Hai Duong province, the number of abandoned fields has decreased sharply compared to previous years. From 2020-2024, the total rice cultivation area in the province is an average of 53,650 hectares per crop.
Of which, the area of abandoned fields without rice cultivation ranges from 251-358 ha/crop, accounting for 0.35-0.42% of the cultivated area of one crop. The abandoned fields are mainly areas where the crop is abandoned without cultivation, there is no area where rice is completely abandoned without cultivation.
Identifying the causes leading to the situation of abandoned fields, affecting the waste of land resources and significantly affecting the overall development plan of the agricultural sector, the People's Committee of Hai Duong province has issued many support policies and mechanisms, focusing on directing functional sectors and localities to implement solutions to encourage farmers to return to production to reduce the situation of abandoned fields.
A number of policies have been issued such as the Project "Developing concentrated agricultural production applying high technology and organic agriculture in the period 2021-2025, with a vision to 2030".
According to the project content, in the field of cultivation, to encourage people to accumulate land, the province has policies such as supporting land lease for large-scale commodity production from 5 hectares or more, minimum lease term of 5 years, support rate of 5 million VND/ha/year in the first 2 years, calculated from the date of land lease; support for expanding winter crop production, support rate of 4 million VND/ha of winter crop increased compared to the previous year; support for safe production,...
Every year, Hai Duong province issues a Plan to convert crop structure on rice land. This is one of the solutions to adapt to climate change, especially in areas with difficult conditions for rice production, limiting the negative impacts of unfavorable weather conditions, and being proactive in the process of organizing production.
These conversion models have the advantage of overcoming water shortages, as well as frequent prolonged flooding that often requires late planting, which is unstable in rice production, and limiting the situation where people abandon their fields and do not want to cultivate them.
