Cooperatives ... peanut Cassava

Cooperatives ... peanut Cassava
 The peanut intercropping cassava leaves, stems and roots optimistic (about 4.5 tons / ha) will be additional sources of green manure for soil, improve the soil, prevent erosion and ensure sustainable farming.

In North sunny day like pouring fire, PhD. Le Quy Tuong, Deputy Director of the Center for variety testing, the National Plant, head of the extension project "Development of Sustainable Cassava northern mountain provinces" call me go Phu Tho and Vinh Phuc sightseeing tissue Cassava optimistic picture. Medium pan fire in Nghe An on, I hesitated, PhD. Wall said: "You do not go, then it is a pity, because only a few days to go before people mustered optimism, then see how the value of the model Cassava optimistic?" ... To Phu Tho, just steps alight, Ha Quoc Binh, Chairman of cooperatives Do Son (Thanh Ba, Phu Tho) sweating run to give me the hat palm, and then pulled me out between the cassava green trees and grass hill, where farmers are harvest. Mr. Binh holding a bunch of plump raised optimism breeze: "Here, journalists see go, peanut seed tubers L14 much like this, 100 kg / rod is so sure. Price VND10,000 / kg, farmers holding just 1 million already. What the? Cassava also here. KM98-7 new varieties, plant plump, developed like this, 40 tonnes / ha not think. Previously farmers grow native varieties, still cultivated a plot to control (Mr Binh indicated courtyard nearby native varieties) like the other stunted, yield only 15-20 tonnes / ha. Cassava Lac cash in journalist sir! And also so that people in the area call our cooperative is located Cassava Cooperative. Hilly land not irrigated, no cassava, peanuts do not know what to plant efficiency. " Farmer Hoang Ngoc Phuc, Thanh Ha, Thanh Ba said the process Cassava cultivation techniques are simple touch. To service, plow and plowed up as normal cassava. Then slitting beds put manure on cassava, peanuts into the groove before, some time after the new cassava on the bed. Peanuts and cassava development. By this time, after more than 2 months, the peanut harvest take root, stem, leaves and roots leave composted peanut, cassava also on less than 1m high, tuberous roots spread all over the bed. Exposure dried peanuts, get the sale price, the closing price is not finished her boyfriend child starts hilling and green manure include stems, leaves and roots of cassava touch up beds, providing more nutrients for cassava and make the beds Cassava enough for dozens cassava each cavity sprawling 40-50 cm. Leaving the domain of the hill Phu Tho Xuan Hoa, Lap Thach, Vinh Phuc at 15 pm, as well as time with the highest thermal amplitude during the day. Yet, just about to arrive, farmers cooperative members and sanitation General Service Xuan Hoa rushing cassava Hill welcomed the delegation. Anybody ask anybody breeze. Atmosphere as the new opportunity to see the value of agricultural workers bring income to the people. "Show cassava remains 1 of 6 major crops worth over $ 1 billion in export. Products market cassava always good and has great potential. Therefore, developing sustainable cassava in mountainous provinces North in particular and other cassava-growing areas in the nation with optimism model Cassava or manioc mixed legume crops should be expanded and promoted the propaganda and mobilization. In the long term, the State should have policies for Cassava sustainable development ", Dr. Le Quy Tuong. Grilled so that he does not plan Thursday, Chairman of the cooperative Xuan Hoa said," The land that was formerly the land and gravel mix optimistic. But local varieties with low productivity. Now plant L14 peanut planting the cassava KM94 both simultaneously with technical progress, with new ones has never we dreamed. So that's the truth! ". Mr. Nguyen Van Huong, Deputy Director of Phu Tho Extension Center switch plates "In Phu Tho, hilly land without irrigation, so far only farmers grow local cassava varieties with low productivity, arid land increasingly eroded. But with peanut intercropping cassava leaves , stems and roots optimistic (about 4.5 tons / ha) will be additional sources of green manure for soil, improve the soil, prevent erosion and ensure sustainable farming. Productivity also increases, the value per hectare of arable land increased by almost double. In Phu Tho, although peanut intercropping model new cassava points deployed in several districts for 2 years but so far the model has spread throughout the regions of the province. " TS. Le Quy Tuong said, over 33 demonstrations 2013-2014 in 6 provinces of Vinh Phuc, Phu Tho, Son La, Hoa Binh, Thai Nguyen, Lao Cai, cassava yield reaches 28.5 to 43.7 tons / ha, an increase of 26.7% over the previous. The local high yield cassava as Phu Tho from 33.8 to 43.7 tons / ha; Taiyuan 30.5 to 36.2 tons / ha ... Meanwhile peanut yields reached around 1 t / ha. There are places like Vinh Phuc, Phu Tho to reach 1.4 to 1.6 tonnes / ha. Net earnings reached around 42 million / ha, higher than the previous cassava approximately 16 million / ha. Ie, peanut Cassava increase profits for people more 16 million / ha compared to previously only cassava. "These demonstrations are optimistic Cassava farmers northern mountainous appreciate what we have witnessed. It is like an oil slick across the northern hills. Accordingly, fellow conditional application of new techniques for breeding, intercropping farming techniques; effective multi-purpose, but the biggest goal is poverty alleviation, income generation; enhance soil cover, reduce erosion and contribute to agricultural development for sustainable mountain provinces