Trà Vinh restructures cropping to improve farmers’ livelihoods

Organic rice fields in Trà Vinh Province's Cầu Ngang District. — VNA/VNS Photo Thanh Hoà TRÀ VINH — The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Trà Vinh will assist farmers in restructuring crops on a total area of 1,400ha this year to help them earn higher incomes. The 1,400ha are unproductive sugarcane and rice fields and orchards. The provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development will help the farmers switch to annual crops on 760ha and perennial trees on 400ha. The remaining area will be used to intercrop rice and aquatic species or breed only aquatic species. It will survey soil conditions, irrigation systems and embankment systems in each locality to advise farmers on their switch to crops and animals with high value and demand. Local farmers switched from rice to other crops and aquatic species on 2,335ha of unproductive lands last year. Most of the lands now fetch them an income of VNĐ90-300 million (US$4,000-13,200) per hectare per year, two to three times up from earlier, according to the department. Trà Cú District, the province's largest sugarcane producer, has been successful in converting sugarcane lands, with farmers earning high incomes after the switch. Huỳnh Văn Thảo, head of the Trà… Read full this story

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