Good harvest of golden sticky rice

High productivity, good price

This year's crop, Kinh Mon town produced more than 700 hectares of golden sticky rice, concentrated in the communes and wards of Duy Tan, Tan Dan, Hoanh Son, Hien Thanh, Phu Thu...

This year, people in the town's golden sticky rice growing area have had access to quality rice varieties restored by the Institute of Food Crops and Food Plants, and have been trained in safe organic production processes combined with favorable weather conditions, so rice yields are much higher than last year. Specifically, the estimated yield is 52 quintals/ha, 2 quintals/ha higher than last year's crop. The price of paddy purchased at the field is 1,250,000 VND/quintal, people earn a profit of 1,800,000 VND/sao, 300,000 VND/sao higher than regular golden sticky rice. In addition, many households take advantage of the amount of dried sticky rice straw to sell at 5,000 VND/kg, contributing to an increase in income from 400,000 VND to 600,000 VND/sao. Golden sticky rice straw is long, strong, durable, and has a characteristic aroma. It is often used to make straw brooms, bundles of onions, garlic, and vegetables, so it is very popular with people in onion and garlic growing areas. After harvest, farmers turn the plow over and continue to grow potatoes, beans, and short-term green vegetables, contributing to soil improvement and increasing income.

The good news is that for many years, the output of the Golden Flower sticky rice product has not been worried. Every harvest season, without notice, traders from all over the place come to buy fresh rice right in the fields. Mr. Le Van Sang, a trader in Bac Ninh said: "Every year at this time, I and some of my brothers come to buy rice from the people. Kinh Mon Golden Flower sticky rice has the characteristics of being soft, sticky, and very fragrant. It is better used to cook sticky rice, sweet soup, wrap Chung cake or brew wine than other types of sticky rice, so gourmets really like this type of sticky rice."

Familiar brand

Golden flower sticky rice of Kinh Mon town is chosen by many enterprises, cooperatives, and individual business households to develop their brand, from applying the production process, harvesting, preliminary processing, selection, packaging of finished products to deep processing, bringing different value to this traditional agricultural product.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Quy, Director of Duy Tan Clean Agricultural Products Cooperative, said that the cooperative currently has 25 members, purchasing products for 14 hectares with an output of 70 tons. To help members and people produce quality golden sticky rice, the cooperative regularly coordinates with the town's Agricultural Service Center and businesses to train on production techniques, supply seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides at preferential prices, support to minimize investment costs, improve productivity, quality, and income for members.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Huong, owner of Mac Dinh Trung production facility (Duy Tan) said that the facility has a full range of dryers, milling machines, automatic sieves, packaging machines, etc. After being purchased, fresh rice will be dried and preserved for gradual processing throughout the year. The facility's yellow sticky rice products have stamps and barcodes for traceability, and are vacuum-packed. Ms. Huong said that this year, the facility will register to build an OCOP product for yellow sticky rice. On average, each year, this facility connects to sell more than 100 tons of finished rice to the market.

Phuong Khiem Golden Sticky Rice Wine of Phuong Khiem One Member Co., Ltd. (Hiep Son) is produced by modern alcohol and essential oil distillation machines, preserving the flavor of Kinh Mon's typical Golden Sticky Rice. Currently, the Company has invested in a production line of 55 thousand liters/year, the wine product is bottled in glass with a volume of 700ml/bottle. Phuong Khiem Golden Sticky Rice Wine has achieved 4-star OCOP and is one of 12 products awarded the title of Vietnam's golden agricultural brand of Kinh Mon town.

Mr. Nguyen Xuan Ha, Head of the Town Economic Department, said that the Kinh Mon golden sticky rice area has maintained a stable production area. Aiming at multi-value agricultural production, for golden sticky rice in particular and local specialty agricultural products in general, the town implements a policy of direct support for people from varieties, production processes, agricultural materials, encouraging businesses, cooperatives, and production linkage groups to improve product quality, carry out deep processing, proactively approach the market, new sales methods, and accompany farmers to develop sustainable brands.