Quang Ninh Seed Joint Stock Company: Proactively shifting towards agricultural economic thinking

Mr. Vu Van Tam, Director of Quang Ninh Seed Joint Stock Company, said: The value of the enterprise is the leading enterprise brand in the country in rice varieties. This brand has been built by many generations of leaders, officers and employees of the Company over the years. Our mission is to inherit, promote and continue to enrich the achievements in creating new rice varieties for farmers to produce in the fields, bringing many economic and social values.

The process of creating new rice varieties takes 4 years, going through the stages of selecting lines, domesticating, maintaining gene sources, isolating, monitoring each line and variety separately, then testing and certifying to meet national standards before transferring to production. This process requires many factors, including people, techniques, experience, funding, time... Quang Ninh Seed Joint Stock Company always has a team of skilled, responsible technical staff, passionate about scientific research on rice variety selection. The company has established a Center for Research, Selection, and Testing of Varieties, and has long been a pioneer in participating in implementing scientific research topics and tasks to test new rice varieties of the province and the country. Currently, over 98% of the seeds produced and supplied by the company are products formed from the results of scientific and technological research.

In recent years, Quang Ninh Seed Joint Stock Company has invested in the reasonable application of modern equipment and technology in production, currently the mechanization rate is 90%, thereby reducing manual steps, taking advantage of human power in scientific work. Typically, the Company has upgraded the warehouse for storing and preserving rice seeds, invested in cargo lifting machines, product packaging machines, dryers, invested in seedling houses, switched from traditional planting to using tray seedlings, transplanters, concreted all the banks of plots, using unmanned aerial vehicles to spray pesticides... in the near future, it will continue to upgrade the seed drying rack. This investment helps Quang Ninh Seed Joint Stock Company increase its loading and unloading capacity from 10 tons to 30 tons/day, promptly meeting the quantity and time for farmers to plant seeds according to the crop schedule; Speed up rice planting progress, increase rice drying capacity to 30 tons/day, thanks to that, rice harvested from the field is brought to dry, after 30 hours it can be bagged to supply to farmers...

Currently, in the trend of increasingly narrowing cultivated area, including rice growing area, for Quang Ninh, according to the plan by 2030, rice land will decrease from 26,000ha to 16,000ha... creating requirements for rice varieties with outstanding yield, high quality, increasing output on cultivated area. Clearly identifying the situation, along with investing in purebred rice varieties, Quang Ninh Seed Joint Stock Company is strongly shifting to the direction of creating hybrid rice varieties, which carry the strengths of the parent lines, with superior quality compared to the original rice varieties, according to calculations, it is 15-20% higher, even reaching 30%; delicious rice quality, good resistance, strong development, wide adaptability.

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