This year’s pepper crop is influenced by the lengthened hot weather, causing the pepper plants easily get epidemics. Pepper planters having a survey into the model of dripping watering system in Son Thanh Tay commune. Mrs. Vu Thi Ha in Son Thanh Tay commune (Tay Hoa district) plant 1.2ha of pepper, harvesting 5 tons of dry pepper this crop, selling at 200,000 dongs/kg, helping her family earn 1 billion dongs. Mrs. Ha lets known that this year’s lengthened hot season does not prevent her family from gaining good crop, also, this year’s selling price is higher, exciting everyone. 4 years ago, Mrs. Ha’s family started investing in planting pepper, this is the very first year she has harvested pepper. In previous years, the pepper marker fluctuated unexpectedly, causing few people to invest in caring, but her family was determined to invest in planting more pepper. Mrs. Ha had a dripping watering system installed, planting green trees around the pepper garden to make the wind-preventing fence and water releasing system. “I care for the pepper garden in the model of biological rotating through using organic fertilizers and micro-biological manufactured articles. With this, she succeeds in minimizing the fungus epidemics damaging the pepper plants, bringing about high productivity”, Mrs. Ha said. Next to Mrs. Ha’s pepper garden is the 3ha-garden of Mr. Le Xuan Phuong, which brings about the productivity of 1.1ha. In the past pepper crop, Mr. Phuong harvested 5 tons of dry pepper, with the selling price of 200,000 dongs/kg, helping him earn 1 billion dongs. To have this result, according to Mr. Phuong, it’s thanks to applying advanced technique into caring for plants. Currently, Mr. Phuong’s pepper garden has been installed with the dripping watering system. With this technique, he doesn’t use much labor force to water the garden, which has been done automatically. The dripping watering system not only saves water but also prevents pests, cases of cutting roots or rotten bases for the pepper plants. When fertilizing to care for the plants, the garden owners directly mix fertilizers into the water tank before using the automatic system to fertilize each plant root, which is both economical and able to use the organic fertilizer Trichoderma to conduct lining fertilizing and pressing fertilizing for the pepper plants. According to Mr. Phuong, this is one of the significant factors helping the pepper garden to have higher productivity than the method of normal watering previously applied. Profit gained from planting pepper trees is fairly high, helping lots of people feel bold in investing capital to expand the pepper-planting area. Currently, Son Thanh Tay and Son Thanh Dong communes have 668ha, an increase of 115ha against the same period in 2013. Dr. Nguyen Trong Tung, vice director in charge of Phu Yen department of agriculture-rural development, lets known, the province needs to early scheme in details the pepper-planting zone, giving instructions to farmers to apply technical advances to producing in order to limit the outbreaks of epidemics on pepper plants; simultaneously organizing inspecting, experimenting, selecting new pepper breeds for higher productivity and able to fight against some serious epidemics, so that farmers feel safe while producing. Source: Phu Yen NewspaperTranslated by HAI LOAN
Posted on: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 03:29:00 +0000
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