Nguyen Thi Binh’s family in Dong Bay village, An Lac commune, Son Dong district has cooperated with businesses to cultivate potato for processing for 8 years.

Thanks to the guidance by local officials, she has implemented crop rotation under the format “2 rice cultivations combined with 1 vegetable crop” on a nearly 2,000- square metre field instead of only 1 rice harvest before. Her family harvested more than 5 tonnes of commercial potato in March.

Seeing high economic efficiency after crop restructuring, An Lac commune expanded the potato cultivation area to 71 hectares this year, an increase of 13 hectares against last year.

Accordingly, businesses have engaged in the whole production process from seedling supply, science and technology transfer to purchasing products after harvest. 9 out of 10 villages have actively restructured crop production gaining a dramatic increase in the value of agricultural land.

Apart from potato cultivation in An Lac commune, many large-scale production areas have been established in the province. These production areas are not only convenient for cultivation and generate more income for growers but they also yield unique products of each locality, typically the water dropwort growing area in Hoang Luong commune, Hiep Hoa district earning more than 250 million VND (9,830 USD) per hectare each year, guava growing area in Phuc Hoa commune, Tan Yen district gaining more than 800 million USD (31,480 USD) per hectare per year and jujube cultivation area in Phi Dien commune, Luc Ngan district earning more than 500 million VND (19,662 USD) per hectare each year.

According to the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, the crop restructuring from rice cultivation into annual crops (like potato, corn and varieties of vegetables), perennial plants (such as jujube, guava, jack fruit and custard apple) and aquaculture helps to increase the production value from 3 to 10 times compared to rice cultivation.

However, crop restructuring needs to adhere to the regulations, conform to the agricultural development plan and suit the local cultivation, climate and soil conditions. Besides, it requires close linkage with businesses in production to create a close process with high stability and efficiency.

In the provincial master plan in the 2021-2030 period with a vision to 2050, Bac Giang province will have 45,000 hectares of land for rice cultivation. Currently, the province has about 70,000 hectares of rice growing land. Thus, there is large room for crop restructuring on the land for rice cultivation,

The province plans to change 6,100 hectares of rice cultivation land into land for annual and perennial plants and aquaculture in the 2021-2025 period while it will restructure 671.9 hectares in 2024 mainly in the districts of Luc Ngan, Yen The and Hiep Hoa.

Hai Van

 

 

Bac Giang seizes opportunities to develop human resources in semiconductor industry

BAC GIANG - The People's Committee of Bac Giang province organised a seminar on the situation and solutions for developing human resources in the semiconductor industry in the province at the provincial Convention Centre on April 16.

Bac Giang provincial leaders visit national contributors joining Dien Bien Phu Campaign

BAC GIANG - On April 16, The Standing Vice Chairman of the Bac Giang Provincial People's Committee (PPC) Mai Son led a delegation to visit and present gift to some families of outstanding veterans and former youth volunteers joining Dien Bien Phu Campaign in Hiep Hoa district. 

Bac Giang provincial leaders visit former soldiers and youth volunteers in Dien Bien Phu Campaign

BAC GIANG- A working delegation of the provincial Party Committee, People’s Council, People’s Committee and Fatherland Front Committee led by Tran Cong Thang, member of the provincial Party Committee’ Standing Committee and Chairman of the provincial Fatherland Front Committee on April 15 visited and presented gifts to families of some outstanding former soldiers and youth volunteers in Bac Giang city who joined in Dien Bien Phu Campaign. 

Bac Giang health sector adds more than 1,100 new techniques

BAC GIANG - In order to improve the quality of medical examination and treatment, since early this year, the Department of Health in Bac Giang province has newly and additionally approved for 1,161 new and specialized techniques, 469 of which are deployed at public medical facilities, the remaining at private ones. 

Bac Giang accelerates to build infrastructure of industrial clusters

BAC GIANG - On April 11, Phan The Tuan, Vice Chairman of the Bac Giang Provincial People's Committee (PPC) chaired a conference to review the progress of a number of investment construction projects of industrial cluster infrastructure in the province.