On August 10, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development cooperated with Gia Lai province to hold a conference to “Develop and develop safe and sustainable pepper production models to enhance values”.
The conference spends a lot of time focusing on effective measures to prevent and combat diseases that die quickly, die slowly and the situation of using pesticides, the residues of plant protection drugs on pepper towards safe pepper production. full of food.
According to the evaluation of Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Quoc Doanh, over the past time, the units under the Ministry and the key provinces on pepper have made great efforts to curb the outbreak of deadly and rapidly died disease. Slowly on the pepper tree. However, due to the rapid increase of the new pepper growing area, the high volume of pesticide residues has adversely affected the productivity and quality of pepper …
Towards safe and sustainable pepper production that brings high economic value, Deputy Minister Le Quoc Doanh said that provinces need to focus on replicating the model of linking enterprises providing input materials and purchasing enterprises. with farmers to ensure safe products, traceability.
Up to this point, the total pepper area of the nine key provinces reached nearly 100,000 hectares, increasing nearly 5,500 hectares; in which, pepper area in 4 Central Highlands provinces is nearly 55,400 ha (accounting for 56.7%), 3 Southeast provinces are nearly 40,000 ha (accounting for 40.7%), 2 provinces in the South Central Coast are more than 2,500 ha … Nearly 5,000 ha of infected pepper died quickly and slowly, accounting for nearly 5% of the total planted area of pepper.
In Gia Lai, pepper is planted in 13/17 districts, towns and cities with an area of over 16,300 ha; of which, new planted pepper in 2016 was more than 1,200 ha, basic construction was nearly 6,000 ha and business pepper was over 9,200 ha.
The whole province currently has over 2,800 hectares of pepper infected with late-onset yellowing disease, accounting for 18% of the total pepper area of the province, an increase of over 1,600 hectares over the same period, mainly concentrated in the districts of Chu Puh, Chu Se, Chu Prong. , Duc Co and Dak Doa.
Source XTTM.mard.gov.vn
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