High yield pure rice variety Huong Binh. Huong glutinous rice variety and Huong Binh quality rice variety were selected and created by Hong Quang – Ninh Binh Agricultural Materials Company Limited (Hong Quang Company) from imported materials, the variety has been recognized for circulation by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. at Decision No. 100/QD-TT-CLT dated May 7, 2020 and Decision No. 125/QD-TT-CLT dated June 19, 2020; registered for copyright protection, protection certificate No. 34.VN.2021. The recognized circulation area includes the Northern and North Central provinces. Huong glutinous rice variety Similar to Huong sticky rice. With a short growth period, in the cold weather of the spring crop of 2021, this rice variety from sowing to harvesting is only 125 days, the crop is about 100 days, suitable for planting both crops, barefoot and barefoot. , and low. The average tree is 105-110cm tall, the tree is quite resistant to falling. The overall shape of Huong sticky rice is more beautiful than N97 or N98, medium tillering, compact laying, dark green leaves, moderate leaf stand, narrow leaf angle and long life span. ripe red tail. The seeds are round, the husk is bright yellow, the rice code is quite attractive, the percentage of seeds is high, in the spring crop of 2021, the seeds will be over 95%, the seeds are bigger than N98, the weight of 1000 seeds is 26-27 g. Glutinous rice is very suitable for processing glutinous starch, making cakes and cooking wine. According to the comments of processing households, Huong sticky rice wine has a higher alcohol recovery rate than other varieties (N87 or N97). In terms of quality: Glutinous rice has a slight aroma, much better than N97 and N98, the rice surface is uniform in color, opaque white, and uniform, if harvested fresh, dried, the percentage of milled rice is high 69-70%, the rice is flexible and not sticky; The softness of rice is almost equivalent to N98. Especially, Huong sticky rice has good resistance to blast disease, 4 crops are monitored, including those with favorable conditions for the growth of blast fungus, infected varieties are burned, but Huong sticky rice is still safe. Dry blight and leaf blight in the crop are also light, so planting Huong sticky rice costs less pesticides, saving costs. Huong sticky rice has a high yield, an average of 70-75 quintals/ha in spring crop, balanced intensive farming, good foothills reaching 8.0-8.5 tons/ha, in the trial Huong sticky rice exceeded N97 10-12. %. High-yield and high-quality rice variety Huong Binh Rice variety Huong Binh. The variety has a growth period of 125-130 days in the spring crop and 100-105 days in the winter crop; suitable for planting both crops in a year in the northern and northern central provinces, barefoot and lowland. Huong Binh has a compact tree shape, good branching, high percentage of flowers, medium-sized flowers, thick seeds, elongated seeds, and thin, bright yellow rice husks. Grain weight 23-24 g/1000 grains, high rice ratio 67-68%, beautiful rice surface, in rice, eating quality is assessed as quite delicious, rice is soft, flexible, cooked rice overnight is not damaged. wet and still maintain the plasticity, thick rice, amiloze content 17-18%. About the overall shape: Huong Binh has a height of about 110cm, leaves are dark green, thick leaves, hard leaves, average leaf width 0.8-1cm, vertical leaf angle, functional leaf life high. Shapes accept a scale of 1 (best). Huong Binh is quite resistant to rice blast, dry blight, has not seen any serious damage from BPH, the crop is very light, only in the foothills of the lowland fields and with late nitrogen fertilization. The disadvantage of Huong Binh is that the cotton neck is not long (cotton neck is 0-0.5cm). The average yield on bare feet in the spring crop is 7.5-8.5 tons/ha (270-300kg/sao in the North). Hit the season everywhere In the spring crop of 2021, Hong Quang Company has cooperated with a number of rice processing and milling enterprises, deploying a series of production sites from the Red River Delta, North Central, and South Central Coast regions. . Everywhere, Huong and Huong Binh glutinous rice is also abundant, commercial rice of these two varieties is purchased fresh by businesses at a price of 6.0-6.7 thousand VND/kg, making farmers extremely excited, because just good season, just get the price and save the cost of drying. In Quang Nam, the family of Mr. Nguyen Van Chu, Dien An 1 Cooperative, Dien Ban district transplanted 1,000 m2 of Huong Binh variety, collected 1,080 kg of fresh rice, and dried more than 8 tons/ha. Mrs. Nguyen Thi Linh’s family, Bac Thanh commune, Yen Thanh district, Nghe An planted 1.5 ha of Huong sticky rice, collected over 13 tons of fresh rice, yielding 8.6 tons/ha. Mr. Hoang Van is also in Yen Thanh, hamlet 7, Cong Thanh commune, planting 5,000m2 (5 sao of Central Coast) of Huong Binh variety, with an average yield of 460 kg of fresh rice/stick. In Le Thuy – Quang Binh, in many material areas, farmers planted Huong Binh and Huong sticky rice varieties with a huge yield of 400-450kg/sao Central, many people said that they have not seen a good rice crop and as much rice as the one. hey, god compensated for the flood damage in the previous crop, lost all of his mother’s breeds, his property… In Quang Xuong, Nong Cong (Thanh Hoa), 4 areas of raw materials for growing Huong and Huong Binh sticky rice with purchase contracts with enterprises are all in season and at good prices. In Ninh Binh, Khanh Trung Cooperative, Yen Khanh district, we met a delegation of farmer households and agricultural service cooperatives to visit the field to evaluate these two varieties in the field of spring crop, May 25, 2021. Mr. Suat’s household in Village 7 in Khanh Trung commune commented, he has planted Huong sticky rice a few seasons ago, he likes it because it is hardy, resistant to falling and especially not blasted, when harvested, a business has fresh weight and high price. Ms. Lai Thi Hao, also in Khanh Trung, had the same comment as Mr. Suat and said she would expand the next two rice varieties. Mr. Dinh Van Thuyet, Director of Khanh Trung Agricultural Service Cooperative, and evaluated the reality in the field with a group of advanced farmers. an enterprise in the district selected and created, real people, real work, we witnessed the company’s technical staff sifting through the selection, measuring and testing, comparing, then representing it on a mass basis, very confident. . Next season we plan to give 140-150 ha. In this commune, traders also buy fresh and compete with each other, the village and commune have to arrange the schedule and location. In Yen Mo, Ninh Binh, with 10 ha of Huong Binh variety, the average fresh yield is 280 kg/sao in the North, many households over 300 kg of fresh/sao in the North. Businesses collect fresh and pay people 6,000 – 6,500 VND/kg depending on the type. With an average yield of 8.5-10 tons/ha of fresh rice, farmers earn an average of 56-57 million VND/ha, the total cost from seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, labor land (90,000d/sao BB, equivalent to nearly 2,500,000d/ha, harvested by combine harvesters 100,000d/pole, equivalent to 2,800,000d/ha…). According to the calculation of all costs, each hectare costs 19.5 million to 20 million VND, so this crop with Huong and Huong Binh sticky rice, farmers who spend 100,000 VND will get 280,000 VND in profit. net is 25-26 million VND/ha.

Hidden in the dark, the terror of the dark, is a herd of thousands of mice. Wander around the wheat cellar at the Fragar family farm, a seven-hour drive from Sydney. The drought is over, and the Fragar family’s first good harvest in years is being ravaged by rats. But the Fragars weren’t the only victims. Countless farms along Australia’s eastern grain belt are facing a rat epidemic described as the worst in public memory, according to New York Times . Rats in the grain warehouse at the Fragar family farm. Photo: New York Times. The rat epidemic came after years of bountiful crops màng On average, every 10 years, Australia faces a rat epidemic. This year, the rats appeared after a year of favorable rain and wind in 2020. The crops were bountiful, the farmers’ food stores were full, becoming an ideal food source for the rats to multiply. This year’s rat epidemic is also partly caused by the change in people’s farming methods. In the past, farmers used to burn the stubble after each crop, before sowing began. But over the past 15 years, Australian farmers have started sowing seeds directly on the trunks of old food crops, to protect the environment. It was this change that created an additional food supply as well as an ideal nesting place for the rats. Both natural and man-made factors, combined with the rapid reproductive cycle – a single mother can give birth to 6-10 pups in 3 weeks, have caused the rat population to explode into the tens of thousands. million children. Meanwhile, the Australian government has been criticized for its slow response. Recently, after a long period of rat epidemic raging, the New South Wales state government lifted the ban on the use of bromadiolone poison, which is considered a “napal bomb” for rats. Rats on a grain tarpaulin at a farm in Tottenham. Photo: AP. Tottenham is a small town in the midwest region of the state of New South Wales. Residents here said they have never seen a rat epidemic as long as it is now in the past. Winter is now slowly coming to the southern hemisphere, including Australia. Cold weather slows down the growth of mice. Robert Brodin, the owner of a shop in Tottenham, said the number of rats he catches each morning is now 15-20, down by nearly half compared to the previous time. However, Mr. Brodin expressed skepticism about the possibility that the rat epidemic would end just through winter. “They used to say, once they (rats) start eating each other, the rat epidemic will pass. But they have been eating each other since December 2020 and nothing has changed,” Mr. Brodin said. Steve Henry, an expert on rat diseases in Australia, admits it is difficult to predict when the current rat epidemic will pass. Mr. Henry said the rat epidemic can only end when it has peaked. “The epidemic will end when there are too many rats in the ecosystem, all of them interacting with each other, causing the disease to spread quickly. At the same time, the rats run out of food, they will be both sick and hungry, that is when they will attack each other and eat the young,” expert Henry predicted. If the rat population survives the winter in large numbers, the size of the rat population will explode again in the spring, then the situation could be worse. Until the rat epidemic is over, it will continue to be a psychological burden for people living in the areas directly affected. Life turned upside down “I feel like I’m watching the rats gnaw away at the family’s future,” said Kathy Fragar. During the first half of 2021, the rat epidemic has spread across southern Queesland, New South Wales and northern Victoria, the three wealthiest eastern states in Australia. “The rat epidemic is the flip side of a rare lucky year out of the worst drought in a century.” New York Times comment. Not only attacking crops, rats even attack people in the house. They get into the air conditioning system, destroy household appliances, eat poultry. Communication systems in some areas of Australia were disrupted when rats bitten telecommunications cables. Rats biting power lines also short-circuited and set a house on fire in New South Wales. Mr. Terry Klante emptied the rat out of the trap. Photo: New York Times. The rat epidemic makes people do things every day that no one is interested in. At the stores, employees set traps every night, and in the morning drown the rats they catch. In residential areas, “cremation yards” sprang up, where people bring the bodies of rats they find or kill for incineration. Hospitals also struggle with hygiene requirements against the invasion of rats. Jeff Fragar, the family’s ranch owner, said the loss of wheat storage was noticeable due to rat infestation. Mr. Fragar hopes to be able to sell 500 tonnes of the 700 tonnes of wheat already harvested on the farm. Even with such an optimistic figure, the family still lost $30,000. Many farmers find themselves in a situation where their goods are returned because rats are found in their lots. Mr. Fragar said the family’s biggest concern right now is the risk of not being able to continue growing the next crop. The Fragar family farm is in its infancy. The swarm of rats will eat whatever seed man sows in the ground. But if we continue to wait, the ideal time for sowing will pass, the farm is at risk of crop failure, or even no crop to harvest. The NSW Farmers lobby group warned New South Wales could lose billions of dollars as the rat epidemic affects the upcoming wheat, barley and canola crops. “We haven’t been able to plant anything for three years now because of the drought. We’ve only had half a year of good weather, and then the rats have ruined everything. If the weather doesn’t continue to be favorable, I can saying that our luck has run out. The bank will no longer help us,” said Mr. Fragar. Can only wait Jo Randall lives more than 100 kilometers south of the Fragars’ farm. The woman said she cried when she discovered that the rats had entered the house and destroyed the furniture. The Randalls consider themselves lucky because they were able to protect the farm from rats, by actively trapping and burning the farmland. But the Randalls live in an old house, with many cracks, easily infested by rats. Even when it was cold in the morning, Mrs. Randall often had to open the window to release the stench from the rats. A domestic dog chases mice under a grain-covered canvas on the farm of George Greig’s family. Photo: New York Times. In the house, there were traces of rats everywhere. Mrs. Randall’s phone case was crushed at the edge. The sound system of the family is damaged by biting the wire. Rats leave teeth marks on many other household objects. For Mrs. Randall, the ultimate limit was the rats getting into the bed. This finally happened, when the woman found rat droppings on the bed sheet. “Ultimately we have to accept the fact that we’re not going to win this war, we’re not going to get rid of the rats. The best we can do is wait for the rat epidemic to pass,” Ms. Randall said. .

Farmers in Ban Xen commune collect Tuyet San tea. In April, the weather is warm, poinsettias are still red on the stone fence around the green tea hills, as if they are “incubating the aroma” of heaven and earth to turn on fresh buds. We went to Ban Xen commune, sharing the joy of a bountiful spring tea crop with tea growers at the gateway of the “steel land” of Muong Khuong (Lao Cai). Crossing the winding slope from Ban Lau town to the beginning of Ban Xen commune, through the graceful greeting gate like a Nung girl’s hand beckoning, opening in front of her eyes is the green bowl of tea tenderly caressing the buds of the spring crop. summer. Tea trees have existed for decades in Bao Thang, Muong Khuong, Bac Ha, but only in Ban Xen there are nearly 700 hectares, pure and delicious Tuyet San tea is “top of the table” in the Northwest, because of its beautiful water color and fragrance. , sweet. The concentrated, high-quality tea area in Ban Xen is the living result of the Tea Planting Program of Lao Cai province over the past decades. Talking with us, Mr. Do Quy Van, this year at the age of 67, former Secretary of the Party Committee of Ban Xen commune and also a “witness” who has attached his whole life to the tea tree here shared: “It’s not easy to have it. is the largest pure tea area of ​​San Tuyet in the province as it is now. It is the result of the people in my hometown who have been “communicating with suffering” for decades now. Walking on the green tea hills, attracting the eyes, Mr. Van recalled: Around 1986, the Ban Xen people from the lowlands of Thai Binh, Hai Phong, and Ha Nam along with the indigenous peoples had ” march up the hill” put tea (seeded) to the test in this land. “She” of Tuyet San tea “drinks the sun during the day, the night sucks the dew” from the high mountains of Muong’s steel land was lowered to Ban Xen more than 400 meters above sea level, it’s not easy. At that time, officials and people pushed improved carts to collect buffalo and horse manure uphill to Thinh Guai village, Na Pha to grow tea. The commune encouraged houses that could grow 0.5 ha or more to be exempted from community labor, not having to open roads in Din Chin and Ta Gia Khau at that time. Because it is a new tree, many people are still afraid, so they have to use “lever” to create a movement, in which cooperative officials, party members, and exemplary youth unions take the lead so that the people of the Nung and Dao ethnic groups can take the lead. , Teaching lessons to follow. The day I arrived, I was lucky to meet Mr. Vang A Lai, Giay ethnic group, this year over 62 years old but still very strong, his voice sounded like a battle drum. At that time, he was a rare party member, assigned to take charge of bringing tea plants to the Thinh Gua hill area, almost every day, he ate and slept on the hillside with the tea tree. Clinging to the people, sticking to the village, clinging to the tea gradually he brought the “her” of Tuyet San tea boldly rooted in the land of Thinh Guai, Na Pha, Suoi Thau … “There were times when it seemed like failure, then I was very sad, But I am still determined to overcome difficulties and do it because of the belief that one day Tuyet tea tree will take root deeply and sustainably, blossoming green buds and spreading fragrance in this land “- Mr. Lai said. The breakthrough must have been since 2001, when the State implemented Program 135 for extremely difficult areas and Lao Cai province identified tea as the “mainstream” in the crop structure of the agricultural sector. More specifically, Lao Cai province has a Tea Planting Program, with objectives and policies to support varieties, capital and techniques for tea farmers and tea purchasing, processing and consumption establishments. Chairman of Ban Xen Commune People’s Committee – Tran Van Tien said: “With the determination of all levels, branches and efforts of farmers, Ban Xen has turned this semi-mountainous land into the “capital” of Tuyet tea. San of Muong Khuong, with 689 hectares, of which 560 hectares are being harvested, with a total output of nearly 7,000 tons of fresh buds. With the right guidelines, clear policies and mechanisms, the lowlanders of Hai Phong, Ha Nam, and Thai Binh “stand shoulder to shoulder” with the Nung, Dao, and Giay indigenous peoples… here, “abandon corn and delete cassava.” “Low productivity, low economic efficiency, quickly degraded soil to grow tea. The upside-down hills stretching from Thinh Guai, Na Pha, Suoi Thau, Na Vai, and Sang Tao… covered with the new green color of Tuyet San tea instead of cassava and corn, growing more and more young. grease, contributing to stable income, creating jobs for many local workers. Only then will it become clear that “the will of the Party and the people’s will” will come to fruition when it is linked and created as a driving force and a strength in every daily work, from cadres to people, especially in the process of eradication. hunger, reduce poverty, rise to riches in difficult lands. In Ban Xen, there is a popular saying, people call tea tree “don’t worry about rescue”, because it only has a high or low price, but it doesn’t rot, dumped like bananas and pineapples when the output is “clogged”. The Ban Xen area is often hit by hail and whirlwinds, but Tuyet San tea does not break branches or crush leaves like other trees, just bravely weaves branches and buds like the temperament of Ban Xen people. Talking about the “tea king” in Ban Xen, no one can pass Mr. Vang Din Lin, in Flat Tao village. Mr. Vang Din Lin’s family takes care of fertilizing according to the technical process of making clean tea, using only organic fertilizers, not using chemical fertilizers, so the soil is fertile, the tea tree has big buds and high yield. With nearly two hectares of tea, each year Mr. Lin and his wife earn hundreds of millions of dong. Thanks to tea, 675 out of 933 Ban Sen households have jobs and stable income sources, more millionaires, and good farmer households, such as Nong Van Truong, Nong Van Sen, Nguyen Trung Huy… Every year The commune added dozens of households out of poverty, the whole commune now has less than 4% of multidimensionally poor households. Thanks to that, Ban Xen and Ban Lau reached the new rural finish line at the earliest in Muong Khuong district, since 2015. Gone are the days of spontaneous tea making, now Ban Xen people associate making clean tea into a commodity area, shaking hands with Thanh Binh and Phong Hai tea companies to make a chain of tea products, binding each other for mutual benefit. general economic benefits. Chairman of Ban Xen commune Tran Van Tien excitedly added that Thien Phu Company is urgently completing the construction and installation of a production line for a tea processing factory located in Lung Vai commune, right next to Ban Sen tea area. The unit is committed to product consumption, instructing farmers on techniques, care, and pest control to produce safe and qualified organic tea products for export to European markets. Middle East, Taiwan (China)… The golden sun is like honey covering the tea hills that are straining the sap on each leaf, just waiting for the first rain of summer to pop up buds and buds for people and for life. At the end of Sang Tao village, Nong Van Min and his wife worked hard to prune the old branches, fertilize the tea fields with organic fertilizers to gather sap to raise young buds, waiting for the rain to come rushing in, for the spring tea generation. Satisfy the expectations of the fertiliser for a bountiful and warm tea crop.

Video of the people harvesting Normally, the tree planted for 3 years is to give fruit, the fruit quality is large and small, sweet and sour depends much on the weather, the ripening time lasts about 30-45 days, when in the season, the fruit will ripen very quickly. people have to harvest every day. Previously, very few trees were planted concentratedly by households, but only intercropped in gardens, fences … but in recent years, this type of fruit has been favored by many people. The selling price is quite high, so many households grow more tending. However, due to the benefit of the Covid-19 this year, the ripe price is lower than every year. The wholesale price (wholesale price) at the garden ranges from 7,000-28,000 VND / kg, depending on the type. The people here said that the tree has high economic efficiency and is easy to take care of. If there is a good season, the farmer can reap hundreds of million VND from this fruit. Growers are sorting to deliver to customers It is the time for the garden to ripen, the garden owners must rush to harvest in time to deliver the goods to the traders, to avoid falling. Mr. Do Nhu Phong, a grower in Hoai Duc, said: “This year is better than every year, the first purchase price is still very high, about 48,000-55,000 VND / kg, but is now at the end. The price of the first type has been much reduced. The most beautiful type 1 has a price of about 28,000 VND / kg, while type 2 ranges from 18,000-22,000 VND / kg ” As for Ms. Ngo Thi Le, her family used to grow around the fence, interweaving the crops in the garden, but in recent years, this fruit has been popular with many people. The selling price is quite high, so not only her family but many people in the commune also invest in planting. “At present, my family has planted more than 1 acre” – Mrs. Le boasted. Some pictures recorded at some growers in Hiep Thuan commune (Phuc Tho district, Hanoi city): Hiep Thuan commune is the second largest growing area in Hanoi The gardens are mixed with many crops to increase farming productivity These few years, according to some people, are better season than every year … … due to the Covid-19 translation, the price has come down but not significantly People are busy harvesting and bringing to the market. Picking must pick evenly hand, choose ripe red fruit The ripe berries are carefully selected by the people. People pick it up with bare hands. The small and soft fruit must be picked lightly with the right hand so as not to peel or break, if hard hand the fruit will be broken and cannot be sold “ The whole bunch of flowers weighed heavily on the fruit Sorting and stuffing into foam boxes to deliver to traders