Biggest area west yam Shedding
Many farmers in Binh Tan district, Vinh Long - the largest yam Cuu Long (Mekong) are afflicted because potatoes are sick, productivity, price reduction.
Farmer Le Minh Dat Thanh Dong commune-dwelling, Binh Tan district has harvested 1ha Japanese purple sweet potato sad, said: "In 2013, with time yam prices up to nearly 1.2 million / quintal (60kg ). Seeing this, I recently moved from rice to potatoes, but since then the price of potatoes no longer be so again, any changes constantly and in a downward trend. A few days ago I sold only 180,000 VND / kg, a loss of nearly 4 million ".
The people of Thanh Dong commune, Binh Tan District sad yam harvest. Photo: H.X.
Not only discounts, sweet potatoes also reduced yields and quality due to pests. Mr. Ngo Van Tua - Director Agricultural Services Cooperative Thanh Dong (Thanh Dong commune) said: "While the authorities are headache in implementing control measures the damage firsthand today potatoes are 6 elevator snails appear more "strange" difficult to eradicate. It it has a very small body, the shape resembles bitter but terrestrial snails, shells hobby is eating potato ". He Shan Ming Luan - Yams director Tan Thanh Cooperative (Tan Thanh district) also lamented: "Screws strange damaging potato yield is about 60-70%, many households forgo potato fields because traders do not buy. Many homeowners have found, mixed types of spray but did not kill it all. It attacks not a few potatoes, but also the potato fields, where there are buildings there that's lost season ... ".
Currently, potato acreage Vinh Long province spike, up to about 12.000ha. Mr. Tua said that the situation causes potato growers lost due time, many households have massively intensive potato production in the form, not the land has about respite. Since then, the pest from the previous season would have continued living conditions, attacks the potato later.
Mr. Nguyen Van Liem - Vice Director of Vinh Long DARD said: "Manufacturing is not sustainable yam and safety while also uncertain market for potato quality largely over Chinese export quota, no contract certainty. In particular, foreign traders can always change the specifications of buyers make people lack information about the price, do not understand the market demand. "According to Liem, next time, people have to make the rotations of rice or sweet potato with the ground can break between two consecutive potato and application of integrated measures in potato cultivation.
