Mr. Nguyen Tan Minh, a young farmer in Vinh Kim commune (H. Linh Linh, Quang Tri), owns a nearly 1 hectare pepper garden. In the last days of spring, stepping into the green pepper garden of this guy, all the attention is focused on a tangled wire system, running around the pepper roots, seemingly disordered but carefully reviewed is coming. put … intentionally.
This is an economical irrigation system that he has just been transferred from the project “Safe pepper production using economical irrigation technology” of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Quang Tri province using the World Bank's funding. . “The state supports the entire irrigation system (including irrigation pipes, pumps, related equipment, construction and installation, etc.), and we respond by having to build a water tank and provide electricity to the system. operating system ”, said Mr. Minh.
Watering, fertilizing … drop by drop
Immediately, he immediately “market” to us about the new irrigation technology that he himself is also practicing to operate. Unexpectedly, after the power was turned on, apart from the sound of the pump, people heard nothing else. The whole garden remains the same, as if nothing has changed. “With this system, water does not flow, does not splash, only … drips. At first, I wondered if every drop like this would ever be done, but only after 2 hours to come back or the entire bottom of the soil would be wet. It seems like no water is wasted … ”, Mr. Minh praised.
According to Mr. Nguyen Huu Tam, Deputy Director of Quang Tri Plantation and Plant Protection Sub-Department, currently, 40 households in 2 communes Vinh Kim and Vinh Hoa (H.Vinh Linh) are provided free of charge with the systems. Irrigation, ensuring an area of nearly 10 hectares of pepper. Also according to Mr. Tam, in addition to watering, Israel's state-of-the-art technology-saving irrigation system has other great uses, such as … fertilizing. “Of course, normal fertilizers cannot be used in this irrigation system, but they must be dissolved. To do this, people need to master technology, to operate the irrigation system, ”Mr. Tam said.
This system saves water to the lowest level but still ensures efficiency. For fertilizing, this system also easily distributes and regulates the amount of fertilizer evenly throughout the pepper garden. Thereby saving a lot of workers of pepper growers.
Dr. Vu Van Khue, Head of Flower and Flower Department – Southern Central Coast Agricultural Science and Technology Institute: After many training sessions with the direct guidance of agricultural experts at pepper gardens, most pepper farmers have begun to “love” this economical irrigation system. They know when having it, the peasant's part is … leisurely. “From the time of my biological birth, I know that there is a modern type of irrigation like this,” said Tran Ngoc, a pepper farmer in Vinh Kim commune. And Mr. Minh confided: “For us farmers, when applying any new method, any advance in science and technology is also startling. But I really believe that this economical irrigation system will really bring the cultivation of pepper in Quang Tri to a new, more beautiful site, when the pepper price is not as high as it used to be. ”
Increase efficiency, reduce costs
According to Dr. Vu Van Khue, Head of Flower Delivery Department – Southern Central Coastal Agricultural Science and Technology Institute, a companion from the early days of the project, the economical irrigation system has many preeminent properties. , superior to traditional, manual irrigation. “This system saves water to the lowest level of use but still ensures efficiency. For fertilizing, this system also easily distributes and regulates the amount of fertilizer evenly throughout the pepper garden. Thereby saving a lot of workers of pepper growers, “Dr. Khue said.
Also according to the analysis from this doctor, if fertilizing as traditionally (manually fertilizing with fertilizers of potassium, urea, NPK …), the pepper can only absorb 40-50%, while, for fertilizing Dissolved through irrigation system, pepper plants absorb up to 90%. Because of the efficiency of fertilizing, it will save the amount of used fertilizer and improve the quality of pepper. “Basically, with this system and dissolved fertilizers, production costs will decrease, increase the value of pepper products, reduce effort of farmers,” Dr. Khue once again affirmed.
