Focus on developing a cassava staple crops

Vo Duc in- Director of Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, said Tay Ninh province, departments are conducting a review of restructuring the agricultural sector (particularly the farming sector), to determine the size of each plant planting, developing towards staple crop is cassava. Accordingly, the restructuring will concentrate adjusted to crop planning, prioritizing wheat acreage increased from 50 to 60% (ie from 45,000 ha to 70,000 planned ha), the average yield on 40 t / ha; will adjust and reduce the area of rubber trees and sugarcane to match current realities.

Farmers harvested cassava at Truong Dong, Hoa Thanh district. According to industry experts cassava, cassava trees are easy to grow, not soil cocoon, less disease, low investment costs, the refined products from cassava rich, export markets open ... is an advantage and the potential to develop stable cassava. The province of Tay Ninh is over 50,000 hectares wheat, with yields over 1.6 million tons, the average yield of 31.7 tonnes / ha (national average of 17.9 t / ha), the first queue on productivity, output and 2nd row of the area in the country (after Gia Lai). The whole province has 65 manufacturing plants wheat starch capacity of 1 million tons of starch / year. Bui Cong Ngoc, born in 1979, is one of the farmers get rich on wheat cultivation in Tan Hiep, Tan Chau district share, after the test growing of wheat for higher economic efficiency, so he and his family decided to maintain the wheat planting and learning, exchange of experience farming, changing new varieties, fertilizers conform to the average productivity gain of 45-50 tons / ha. After 10 years, the economy has grown beyond the family, to get rich in the land of his father left, from land less than 1 ha, so far his family has over 10 hectares, the average income nearly 500 million / year.

Cassava will be one of the staple crops of Xining in the future. Assessment of potential development in Tay Ninh cassava, Dr Nguyen Van lang- Association President cassava (noodles) Vietnam that, in the long run cassava will be one of the staple crops of Vietnam, bring high economic value, helping to reduce poverty. The application of science and technology, new breeding, mechanization of cassava production is needed now, in order to increase productivity and create competitive advantage with other countries in the region and the world. Song wanted cassava developed comprehensive, become staple crop, the Xining to have solutions, concrete steps, from input to consumption, to avoid dependence on the Chinese market as present day. Vo Duc In adds, forthcoming, agriculture will review all of the irrigation canal system, upgrading irrigation canals in the province; Navigate to serve agricultural irrigation water for all crops (instead aim only for rice as before). Particularly some land without irrigation channel will apply spray irrigation, drip; simultaneously applied to the stitching mechanized planting, building models 4 links, large model fields to increase productivity, reduce product costs, bring high economic efficiency for cassava growers.