Tra Vinh restructures food crops to adapt to climate change
Tra Vinh is encouraging local farmers to cultivate other food crops in the place of rice on around 7,900 hectares of farming land in areas prone to climate change impacts.
Tra Vinh (VNA) – The Department of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment of the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh encouraged local farmersto cultivate other food crops in the place of rice on around 7,900 hectares of farmingland in areas prone to climate change impacts such as drought and seawaterintrusion.
The target areas include 2,140 hectares in Tra Cu district,1,570 hectares in Chau Thanh district, 1520 hectares in Duyen Hai district, 615hectares in Duyen Hai town, 730 hectares in Cang Long district, 560 hectares inTieu Can district, 373 hectares in Cau Ke district, 350 hectares in Cau Ngangdistrict, and 42 hectares in Tra Vinh city.
Recommended crops to replace rice include short-termindustrial plants, fruit trees and in combination with aquaculture.
Vice Director of the Department Nguyen Ngoc Hai saidrestructuring is being made to improve efficiency of local crops and livestockin the context of climate change.
Assistance has been provided for local farmers to connectwith enterprises to develop large-scale fields, she said.
Technology transfer and training have been strengthenedwhile resources will be mobilized from all economic sectors for completing infrastructurefacilities serving production, Hai said.
Tra Vinh has around 234,000 hectares for rice growing,producing 1.2 million tonnes per year.
Under the agricultural restructuring programme, the provinceplans to reduce the total rice cultivation area to 224,000 hectares by 2020,and 201,000 hectares by 2030. At the same time, rice output will be maintainedat 1.3 million tonnes per year, of which high-quality rice accounts for 70-80percent.
Over the past three years of implementing the programme,nearly 6,000 hectares have been shifted to planting other more lucrative crops,including aquaculture, watermelons, peanuts, grass for feeding cows,vegetables, and corn.-VNA
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