Prospects from corn on upland SB 099 Yen Bai

Prospects from corn on upland SB 099 Yen Bai
(Mard-18/6/2014): With the aim to produce corn high quality merchandise, Central Seed Yen Bai has successfully produced single hybrid corn SB 099, and intensive technology transfer for people in areas of the province corn.
The success of this project has helped local breeds for replacing the imported varieties, reduced costs, higher yields of conventional maize varieties.

2013, Centre for Plant Breeding Yen Bai province has created single hybrid corn combinations SB 099 from hybrid maize varieties SBL SBL 62 3. T rong, the line SBL 62 are drawn from the drought-tolerant corn line and short days, the yield and quality, in accordance with the land contract and the natural conditions of the mountainous province of Yen Bai. H mass produced varieties were the authorities for evaluation and assessment of quality assurance in accordance with Vietnam standards specified quality equivalent to the imported maize hybrids.
Entering the spring of 2014, the Center Seed Yen Bai has simultaneously deployed application threads F1 hybrid maize seed production SB 099 in Van Chan district, Van Yen and Luc Yen. The center has sent staff to locations surveyed areas and the contract signed with the households involved. A thank you was planning to build models corn hybrids for each district unit, planning seeds, supplies for each point, sending staff to monitor each model, while guiding the technical procedures for each farmers involved in the production.
Results showed that the corn was growing and developing well, the morphological features are the correct expression like: ensuring the stem height, leaf color, height plays corn, stem color .. . Barefoot in good locations, ensuring moisture, strong plant growth, plant height exceeds the average barefoot point. In particular, this year, the weather is quite unusual happenings, the first occurrence of severe and damaging cold waves, then arid fields by heat, but the SB 099 maize area has good growth and development.
The outstanding features of this corn is drought tolerance, disease resistance, good anti-dump; colored bead beautiful, big, diameter from 4.5 to 5cm corn, corn on 18cm length; bi-thin leaves so easy to harvest, stable yield from 70 t sir / ha, if investment in better farming conditions, high density, the yield can be up to 95 kg / ha, help farmers improve Income per unit of agricultural area.
Truong Van Rooster in group 5B, Lien Son Town Farm, Van Chan district, said: "Before my family and neighbors planted different types of corn. This year, I planted corn hybrid trials and better see previous varieties. Moreover, not only for high productivity but the form of corn, seed corn are also eye-catching, trunk also be utilized as feed for cattle. The next season, my family will continue to expand acreage SB 099 corn hybrids this. "
Do Thanh Binh, Director of the Center hó P seed Yen Bai insisted: "The center is continuing to study the corn producers with the goal to produce F1 hybrid seeds of commercial varieties SB 099. Together, the central organization of production on all demonstration districts, other, to introduce the corn seed on the structure of Yen Bai province. The center also has advised the provincial People's Committee and propose mechanisms and policies to support farmers for the years to commercialization across the province. "
Yen Bai has corn acreage reached nearly 27,000 hectares a year, an average yield of over 30 kg / ha, total production was estimated at over 80,000 tonnes. With an area of, Rank is in need of farmers need from 540 to 550 tonnes of maize seed. However, most of these p hần is imported from abroad, the price is very high and must depend heavily on distributors. The Centre will produce similar low cost and guarantee the supply of seeds in place, enabling more people to benefit from scientific achievements and an opportunity for farmers to produce goods direction , reduce production costs, increase income for people, contributing to poverty reduction locally.