Autumn-winter rice in the Mekong Delta is often cultivated in adverse weather conditions such as storms and floods. To ensure the success of this rice crop, a good irrigation system is required. Photo: Le Hoang Vu.
Make sure to eat the autumn-winter rice crop
This year's summer-autumn rice production in 2022 in the Mekong Delta is relatively favorable, which is highly appreciated by Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Quoc Doanh, although the rice crop faces many difficulties in input stages such as fertilizer, pesticide, and petrol increase. high, but rice farmers are still profitable. The next crop is autumn-winter, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development plans to deploy 700,000 hectares of production. Currently, the Mekong Delta localities are focusing on sowing according to the seasonal schedule recommended by the agricultural sector, suitable for each sub-region to avoid the effects of floods at the end of the season, high tides and adverse production conditions... On the other hand, irrigation works for production in the region are interested in investment, well-functioning, and ensuring salinity prevention. , washing alum, preventing flooding, storing fresh water in the dry season for production.
An Giang is one of the watershed provinces, autumn-winter rice production often faces many risks due to the severe impacts of climate change and rising flood water. However, in recent years, the Mekong Delta no longer occurs floods according to natural laws, but An Giang is not subjective but still proposes a flood scenario at alarming level 2 so that localities in the province are always ready. ready to respond and adapt to ensure a successful rice crop.
An Giang is one of the watershed provinces, autumn-winter rice production often faces many risks due to the severe impacts of climate change and rising flood water. Photo: Le Hoang Vu.
On average, each rice crop in An Giang produces from 160,000 to 230,000 hectares out of a total of 643 sub-regions, of which 421 sub-regions have complete dikes with an area of about 194,000 hectares.
Mr. Luong Huy Khanh, Head of An Giang Irrigation Sub-Department, said: This year's autumn-winter rice crop has sown over 164,000 hectares, so far has reached about 20% of the sowing area. 8 basic finishing sowing seeds. Besides the areas of the dike that are not safe or outside the dike, An Giang recommends that people do not sow seeds but carry out flood discharge.
However, in order to proactively respond to rising water due to high tides and situations of rain, thunderstorms, tornadoes in the rainy season, floods affect autumn-winter rice production. An Giang's agricultural sector regularly monitors closely, and proactively takes measures and effective response plans, ensuring safe production and people's daily life in the rainy and flood season. Check and review readiness to deploy response plans to ensure safety for dike systems, reservoirs, dams, key areas of key riverbank erosion, works under construction, urban flood control due to the influence of rising water and high tide.
According to Mr. Khanh, to ensure farmers feel secure in production in the current difficult 2022 rice harvest season. Therefore, right from the beginning of the year, the Provincial People's Committee assigns the budget estimates to the localities. On the basis of allocated funds, districts, towns and cities have allocated plans to dredging canals, reinforcing dikes and maintaining and repairing culverts and dams with hundreds of works. In addition, it is recommended that localities should actively monitor daily weather and hydrological developments, promptly notify widely to people coming to the area to take effective measures and plans to respond to ensure safety. production and daily life of people are safe in the rainy season. Especially not being subjective, neglecting disaster prevention and response.
By all solutions, An Giang strives to achieve the area of autumn-winter rice as planned and directs production to win on all fronts. Photo: Le Hoang Vu.
Strengthen the inspection of the system of dykes, dykes and culverts to protect the production of the autumn-winter crop. Prepare electric pumping stations to actively pump pepper to prevent waterlogging to protect the production area of the autumn-winter crop in time when there is an incident.
Mr. Nguyen Si Lam, Director of An Giang Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, further information: Along with the above solutions, the unit also proposes the local functional departments in the province to regularly inspect and repair the system. embankments, embankments, and dam culverts in damaged or degraded sections to well protect agricultural production areas; including autumn-winter rice before the rain and storm are coming. By all solutions, An Giang strives to achieve the area of autumn-winter rice as planned and directs production to win on all fronts.
Irrigation plays an important role
In Dong Thap province, the autumn-winter rice crop of 2022 has so far sown about 85,000 hectares/113,600 hectares, reaching 74.2% of the annual plan in safe irrigation dikes.
Recognizing that the irrigation system plays an important role in agricultural production, to improve the ability to mitigate and adapt to climate change to ensure sustainable development of the agricultural and rural sectors. To do this, for many years, the People's Committee of Dong Thap province boldly proposed to the Central Government a planting plan aimed at investment goals, upgrading the irrigation system, step by step completing the shaft system from the inland areas towards modernization, meeting the requirements of restructuring crops and livestock... In order to exploit and manage water resources effectively, sustainably and adapt to climate change.
Mekong Delta farmers are aware that the irrigation system plays an important role in agricultural production, especially in the 2022 autumn-winter rice crop. Photo: Le Hoang Vu.
Mr. Huynh Minh Tuan, Vice Chairman of Dong Thap Provincial People's Committee said: Dong Thap province's irrigation system is an irrigation system that opens interwoven canals, water is taken from Tien and Hau rivers through horizontal canals, supplied to vertical canals, conduits, to the in-field canal network for direct irrigation or to pump irrigation for production. It can be said that the last summer-autumn rice crop in the province has sown on nearly 200,000 hectares, while all kinds of crops are planted on about 19,500 hectares to ensure enough water for irrigation thanks to good service in-field irrigation. As for the autumn-winter crop being deployed, the province will be determined to ensure victory in the rainy and stormy season.
Currently, the whole province has 833 works on axis canals, grade II, III and IV canals with a length of about 4,073 km, a service area of about 485,132 ha, and a regulation system with 2,616 culverts of all kinds and 1,219 electric pumping stations. Regarding production protection umbrellas, the whole province has 1,319 umbrellas, with a length of 8,105 km. In which, there are 1,102 completely enclosed plots, with a length of 6,303 km, 217 plots against floods (protecting autumn-winter rice).
According to Mr. Tuan, in order for the irrigation system to serve agriculture in the province better and better from here to 2025, the structure of the central capital and local counterpart capital is 350 billion dongs to upgrade the irrigation work system to restore advanced irrigation and drainage services, water saving, electric pumping stations, culverts. At the same time, firmly build canals to meet the requirements of agricultural restructuring in the province, associated with new rural construction in the province.
Currently, Dong Thap has 833 works of axis canals, grade II, III and IV canals with a length of about 4,073 km, a service area of about 485,132 ha, and a regulation system with 2,616 culverts of all kinds and 1,219 electric pumping stations serving production. agricultural export. Photo: Le Hoang Vu.
Working together with the workers to fill the vacant space for nearly 1ha of autumn-winter rice during the family's seedling stage, Mr. Le Van Bay, from Lang Bien commune, Thap Muoi district (Dong Thap), shared: "Many autumn-winter rice crops In the past, my family and I in this field both produce in the safe dike and grow high-quality rice varieties such as OM 18 and OM 5451. Because this is a hardy variety, the roots are deeply rooted in the soil, so it is less likely to fall. fall when encountering thunderstorms in the preparation for harvest, so it is very suitable for farming conditions in the rainy season such as the autumn-winter rice crop. In addition, thanks to the restriction of falling, it gives high yield and quality rice, thereby selling rice easily and at a higher price than some other varieties.
According to Mr. Le Thanh Tung, Deputy Director of the Department of Crop Production (MARD), the flood tide forecast in 2022 is very high and higher than the average for many years, so the provinces in the middle and coastal areas need to attention and reinforcement of dike and embankment systems to cope with high tides and floods combined with high tides. Besides, it is also noted that the middle zone (a part of the alluvial area between Tien and Hau rivers from Tien Giang, Vinh Long, Can Tho city and part of Hau Giang, Tra Vinh, Soc Trang...) is the area. very dangerous to the risk of flooding because the dike system is not good, localities need to have proactive plans to arrange suitable seasons to avoid floods at the end of the season.
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