According to Can Tho Online
OM rice varieties are grown not only in the key rice production areas of the country, the Mekong Delta, but also in many regions of the country such as the Central, Central Highlands and the North, especially OM 4900, OM varieties. 6162, OM 4218, OM 7347…
According to a survey by the Mekong Delta Rice Institute, in the 10 major rice varieties that are most commonly planted and have the highest planting area in the Mekong Delta, there are 6 varieties selected and bred by the Institute. In which, only four main rice varieties: OM 5451, OM 6976, OM 18, OM 4900 have accounted for 40-60% of the rice growing area in the Mekong Delta and play a key role in our country’s export rice group at present. now on. According to a recent survey by the Crop Production Department under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the area used for OM rice varieties accounts for about 65-70% of the total cultivated area in the Mekong Delta.
According to the Agriculture sector in many localities in the Mekong Delta, OM rice varieties with the advantage of having a short growing period of 90-100 days, with high yield and quality, and some groups of OM varieties also produce fragrant rice, has good tolerance to alum, salinity should be selected by farmers for planting, especially in the summer-autumn crop. In Can Tho City, in the summer-autumn crop of 2021, farmers planted 75,166ha of rice, of which OM 5451 variety accounted for 73.2%, OM 380 variety accounted for 5.9%, OM 18 accounted for 2.9% …
