Tien Giang enjoys fruitful agricultural restructuring
The Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang has been promoting agricultural restructuring towards expansion in both area and production of vegetable farming.
Tien Giang (VNA) – The Mekong Delta province ofTien Giang has been promoting agricultural restructuring towards expansion inboth area and production of vegetable farming.
According to Nguyen Van Man, Director of the provincialDepartment of Agriculture and Rural Development, incomes from vegetable farmingrose to more than 226-271 million VND ((9,711-11,645USD) per hectare in 2019, much higher than 124.9-143.9 million VND per hectarein 2016.
The central area of Tien Giang has more than 4,500 hectares undervegetable with output of more than 550,000 tonnes per year, making up 50percent of the province’s total production.
In 2019, the province had 57,753 hectares of vegetable withoutput of 1.15 million tonnes, surpassing the target by 27.77 percent and 49.5percent, respectively.
In the 2017-2019 period, Tien Giang saw a 5.69 percentincrease in vegetable area and 5.43 percent rise in output. In this period, theprovince switched about 10,400-11,000 hectares of rice farms into vegetablefarms each year, which produced an economic value from 4.7-5.9 times higherthan that of rice.
Over the years, Tien Giang has strengthened the transfer ofvegetable cultivation techniques to farmers. So far, the province has about1,000sq.m of poly-green houses and about 10 hectares of net houses forvegetable and fruit cultivation.
Chau Thanh district is Tien Giang’s “vegetable kingdom” withmore than 14,000 hectares, producing over 300,000 tonnes of vegetable eachyear.
Man said that along with the development of vegetable areas,Tien Giang has focused on production organisation and selling. The province hassupported the establishment of more than 100 vegetable trading facilities,along with nine cooperation groups and 12 cooperatives for safe vegetableproduction.
The province also has 20 firms signing contracts to buyvegetable from farmers./.
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