In recent years, farmers in many localities have switched to using trays to plant rice by machine instead of the traditional planting method which is no longer suitable. This method has many advantages, ensuring the planting progress within the best time frame, reducing costs, increasing productivity and freeing up labor for farmers.
Mr. Tran Van Quan's family in Dong Tien Hung commune cultivates more than 10 hectares of rice fields, but for the past 3 years, he has not had to struggle with preparing the land to sow rice seedlings because he has registered for the machine-planted tray seedling sowing service. No matter what variety to plant or how much area, he just needs to call the machine-planted tray seedling production unit and they will provide full supply, ensure quality, according to requirements.
Mr. Quan shared: Since using the method of sowing rice seedlings in machine-transplanted trays, we farmers have more leisure time and the cost has also decreased, especially for households that accumulate a lot of rice fields like my family. Just one phone call with an order and the service unit will take care of the whole package from making the dream, sowing the seedlings to fertilizing, preventing pests and diseases, and transplanting by machine, the price is only 16,000 - 18,000 VND/tray, cheap and leisurely, not as hard and expensive as sowing rice seedlings. This crop, I ordered nearly 3,000 trays of seedlings from the machine-transplanted tray service unit right in the locality. When transplanting, rice seedlings often take a long time to recover and take root because the rooting process of the seedlings is damaged. On the contrary, tray seedlings planted in the entire soil ball will grow immediately, the rice will grow evenly, have fewer pests and diseases, and have higher yields. Thanks to this service, the family has boldly accepted more fields from non-growing household to produce commercial rice, the area increasing every year.
As a pioneer in land consolidation, Mr. Dang Tat Tuan, Dong Tien Hung commune, has long seen the benefits of the method of sowing rice seedlings in trays and transplanting them by machines. Therefore, he has taken advantage of the province's support mechanism to invest in purchasing machinery for agricultural production, establishing a center for producing rice seedlings in trays and transplanting them by machines to provide a full package of services from sowing rice seedlings in trays to transplanting them by machines for the people. This year's crop, in addition to his family's 50 hectares of rice fields, Mr. Tuan also supplied rice seedlings in trays and transplanted them by machines for over 200 hectares of rice fields of farmers in and outside the commune. The area of planting by machines is large, and Mr. Tuan has arranged the sowing of rice seedlings reasonably according to different fields to ensure the quality of the seedlings, suitable for the planting season of each locality.
Mr. Tuan said: I have been providing tray-planting and machine-planting services for households for many years. In the first few seasons, the implementation was difficult because farmers did not know all the advantages of machine-planting and machine-planting, but now this service is very developed. My family always takes the initiative in many types of quality seeds, imports soil for sowing trays from reputable places so that the rice has a high germination rate, the seedlings develop evenly, ensuring quality, meeting the requirements of customers in different regions and localities. In particular, the family produces a fully automatic 3-chamber tray-planting machine to increase capacity and higher quality. The method of sowing and machine-planting reduces the amount of seeds by 45 - 50% compared to manual sowing. 6 people can grow up to 2,000 trays of seedlings per day, and can plant about 25 hectares of rice fields. If I see the same amount of seedlings, it will take several days to finish. I installed an automatic watering system that covers all the trays evenly, saves water, and is less laborious.
In recent years, under the pressure of rural labor shortage and increasing demand for production efficiency, the service of mechanical tray-planting has developed in many localities. In particular, the provincial agricultural machinery support mechanism is the driving force for large farms and agricultural service cooperatives to expand their scale and strongly develop the service of mechanical tray-planting.
Mr. Vu Ngoc Khanh, Director of Nguyen Xa Agricultural Service Cooperative, Dong Hung Commune, said: About 10 years ago, when the model of using machine-planted trays was demonstrated in Da Giang village (old Nguyen Xa Commune), farmers saw that machine-planted rice was sparse, so they did not believe in the productivity and did not dare to apply it. However, after only a few crops, the rice yield of machine-planted trays was higher than that of traditional planting, and it also freed up labor, helping to ensure the crop schedule, especially for large-scale household. Therefore, more and more farmers boldly switched to machine-planted trays. Up to now, the area of machine-planted trays has accounted for 98% of the total rice planting area of the locality, becoming the locality with the largest area of machine-planted trays in the province, always leading in rice productivity in the region, contributing to reducing the area of abandoned fields.
Making rice seedlings by machine is not only a short-term solution in the current context of seasonal labor shortage in rural areas, but also an inevitable trend to mechanize and modernize agricultural production. The expansion and development of this service is an important step in restructuring the agricultural sector towards efficiency and sustainability.
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