Hai Duong province plans nearly 9,000 hectares of rice with higher productivity and quality than other regions to ensure food security.
The People's Committee of Hai Duong province has just approved the planning area for high-yield, high-quality rice cultivation in the period 2025 - 2030 with a total area of 8,984.51 hectares. Of which, Kim Thanh district has the largest area with 2,190 hectares, Tu Ky nearly 1,400 hectares, Ninh Giang 860 hectares...
This is the first time Hai Duong has approved a planning area for high-yield, high-quality rice cultivation. This approval is implemented in accordance with Decree No. 112/2024/ND-CP dated September 11, 2024 of the Government detailing land for rice cultivation.
In these areas, the Provincial People's Committee requires that the structure of crops and livestock must not be changed; priority must be given to investment in irrigation and traffic works to facilitate farmers' planting and harvesting. Here, farmers will grow high-quality rice varieties such as: 415 sticky rice, Hung Yen sticky rice, tangerine sticky rice, spiral sticky rice, Bac Thom No. 7...
Planning high-yield, high-quality rice growing areas contributes to ensuring food security, creating high-quality products, meeting consumer demand in the market and contributing to increasing the value of agricultural production.
According to the provincial Department of Crop Production and Plant Protection, in the 2024-2025 winter-spring rice crop, the whole province planted 53,367 hectares. In the 2023-2024 spring crop, high-yield, high-quality rice accounted for over 70% of the province's cultivated area.
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