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KIen An farmers heading to ginger bumper season

Update: 6/10/2014

(AGO) - Kien An (New Market) is one of the province's main crop. This year, farmers in Kien An ginger excited bumper on price and performance.

Mr. Nguyen Van Group, farmers have planted ginger longtime experience in Hoa Trung Hamlet, said, from the time of planting until about 5 months to harvest ginger commercial sale. At the same time, prolonging care from about 10 months to a year to sell ginger varieties. Spacing is also important ginger, ginger planting seeds by harvest time should be longer than 5 feet spacing bush / ginger, and ginger, then 3 feet of commercial / dust that is. Thus, to be a ginger plant need from 500 - 600 kg ginger varieties. British Group, said: "When the ginger plant, is the most feared disease root rot caused by bacteria (called ginger people or being" tanks ") and currently has no cure." Ginger is cultivated in an area if it was rotten tubers from 4-5 years after planting ginger can again, as if planted early, the bacteria survive in the soil will continue to cause harm. British Group adds: "When the disease is discovered ginger must quickly removed, harvested, if not only for a short time will spread throughout the planting area and now considered as losses entirely. One thing to note is that ginger can not grow continuously over the years on the same land, to change the rotation of crops to avoid pathogen are retained. "

Ginger is a suitable crop for clay dunes and alluvial soil, water resistant, but too much water also makes ginger water rancid, spoiled, not development. When the weather is rain steadily grows more quickly ginger shoots, making the development of increased productivity. "If the weather is less rain, people can extra watering at night, which is also making rapid development Ginger" - he shared group experience. According to his team, ginger prices on 50 thousand / kg at present, is considered to be a record price. With this price, after deducting all costs, he was Group rates above 100 million / public.

When planting ginger, his team also intercropped onions, cilantro, lettuce ... just cool to root, ginger grow quickly, but you can also take a short-term raise, increase their income. According to his team: "Down finished like ginger, ginger wait just start alternating land, onions, lettuce, cilantro ... on, just 2 months after the harvest can be. Thus regained a stake and continue care until the day of harvest ginger ".

Together in the village of Hoa Trung, Vo Van Dung Em 2.5 of ginger cultivation said that ginger has grown more than 4 months and can be harvested, but the family was waiting for the price. Dung I said cheerfully: "This year, the high price of fresh ginger, a little polar bear is similar to ginger income will increase."
Chairman of the Kien An commune Farmer Le Van Every analysis: "At this time many years ago, Chinese ginger appeared so rampant ginger prices low, while this year the market is no longer popular Chinese ginger again , ginger local restaurant smoking should be appreciated. "

  Posts, photos: ANH NGUYEN

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