Modern agriculture, civilized countryside, wealthy farmers

Quang Ninh aims to develop “three farms” in the direction of modern agriculture, civilized countryside, and wealthy farmers. This is the basis for the province to realize important development goals, especially improving living standards in rural and mountainous areas, quickly narrowing the gap between rich and poor and regional disparities.

To implement these goals, the province effectively promotes local comparative advantages of many types of agricultural products, builds and develops concentrated and specialized production areas to facilitate the application of scientific and technological advances, bringing new technology into production, promoting mechanization, promoting production links along the value chain, creating goods with large volume and high economic value. The shift from traditional farming to new methods, with the presence of science and technology, is focused on by farmers.

As a pioneer in applying technology to tea production in Hai Dong village (Quang Thanh commune, Hai Ha district), Mr. Nguyen Van Thien invested in an economical automatic irrigation system for his family’s more than 2 hectares of tea and operated it. through mobile phone. Previously, with this area, Mr. Thien had to hire 4 workers, but now he can complete it in less than 1 hour with just one remote control. This system not only helps provide water for the tea area, but all the fertilizers used are manure, green manure and other organic fertilizers mixed through the automatic irrigation system to fertilize the plants. Mr. Thien said: Applying digital technology to production is an inevitable trend in modern agriculture. This method contributes to maximum saving of human resources, while still ensuring the highest efficiency on a cultivated area.

Applying advanced and modern techniques in agricultural production has gradually formed concentrated production areas bringing high economic efficiency. The whole province currently has over 7,000 soil-tilling machines of all types, covering 95% of the cultivated area; More than 2,500 threshing machines and 3,000 milling machines meet over 95% of production needs. A number of new types of machines have been put into production at the following stages: Transportation, grain separation, water pumping, pesticide spraying, and ditch digging. Currently, the mechanization rate in harvesting reaches over 80%; Active irrigation reaches 80% of the area. There are many models of mechanized applications in animal feed processing, automatic feeding, drinking, milking machines, food grinding…

According to Mr. Nguyen Minh Son, Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, the solution to accomplish the goal of developing modern agriculture, civilized rural areas, and wealthy farmers that the province has set for the period 2020-2025 is not only to produce more agricultural products, which must be agricultural products with market advantages to bring high value; not only linking within agricultural production stages, but linking agriculture with industry and services; The production organization model must be dominant, respect cooperation, and be on par with other countries in the region.

The province has issued specialized resolutions on fisheries, forestry, organic farming, and concentrated animal husbandry. The province is interested in building a development project and perfecting the infrastructure system, including agricultural infrastructure; synchronization in the province’s general planning on marine development space, land farming space… Associated with these policies and planning are directions, financial resources, support mechanisms…, which are subsidies. strong force for “tam nong” to develop.

The province currently maintains 1,070 hectares of growing areas certified to meet VietGAP standards; 94 hectares of high quality rice; 420 facilities apply advanced quality management programs; 46 growing areas were granted codes; 6 fresh fruit packaging facilities… In which there are many outstanding models: Producing VietGAP certified yellow flower sticky rice in Dong Trieu town, an area of ​​150 hectares; Safe vegetable growing areas are concentrated in Quang Yen, Ha Long, Cam Pha, Dong Trieu, Hai Ha, total area of ​​348 hectares, output of over 31,520 tons; Flower growing areas are concentrated in Ha Long, Dong Trieu, Quang Yen, total area of ​​451 hectares, output reaching 131 million flowers; Canna growing areas are concentrated in Binh Lieu, Tien Yen, total area of ​​250 hectares, estimated output of 10,875 tons; Tea growing areas are concentrated in Dam Ha and Hai Ha, with a total area of ​​544 hectares and an estimated output of 3,690 tons.

Rural areas are in the process of building advanced rural areas, model rural areas, but cannot be separated from the process of urbanization, industrialization, and modernization. How can rural and urban living environments only differ in name and region, while the criteria from electricity, water, telecommunications infrastructure, services, public works… must be close to each other? Currently, the average income in rural areas reaches 73.43 million VND/person/year (of which communes in ethnic minority areas, borders, and islands reach 73 million VND/person/year).

Typically, Viet Dan commune (Dong Trieu town), people here have actively transformed the structure and planned the concentrated production area with 300 hectares of high-quality rice cultivation, 200 hectares of custard apple trees, 45 hectares of Canh orange trees, Dien grapefruit… People’s income has increased, the commune’s brand of clean agricultural products has been affirmed in the market. People are actively contributing to building a model rural area, to truly become a countryside worth living in.