On the morning of April 14, Nghe An Provincial People's Committee held a Conference on Deploying the Summer-Autumn Crop Production Project - Winter-Spring 2025. Comrades: Nguyen Van De - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Hoang Quoc Viet - Director of the Department of Agriculture and Environment; Vo Thi Nhung - Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and Environment co-chaired the conference.

The whole province strives to cultivate 77,500 hectares of rice.

In addition to the predicted difficulties in terms of complex pests and diseases, droughts and natural disasters, floods and storms, this year's Summer-Autumn crop production takes place in the context of implementing the policy on restructuring the organizational apparatus (eliminating district level, merging communes), posing difficulties and challenges in management, direction and implementation.

Faced with that situation, the agricultural sector has developed a plan, arranged a reasonable structure of varieties, crops, and seasons, suitable to the actual conditions, specific to each region as well as suitable to the planning and land use plan of each locality. The policy is flexible, drastic and mobilizes the entire political system to focus on directing production; exploiting and promoting all resources to the maximum to complete the targets on area, productivity, output, ensuring safe and highly effective production.

Nearly 3,000 hectares of rice are at risk of drought and water shortage.

With the current water resources situation in the area, this summer-autumn crop, the risk of drought, water shortage, and saltwater intrusion may occur in the highlands, the end of the canal, and the end of the system. According to the forecast of the districts, the area at risk of drought and water shortage in the production plan is 2,912 hectares.

Speaking at the conference, comrade Nguyen Van De emphasized: With the forecast of drought, storms, and tropical depressions that may directly affect Nghe An province in September and October, the Summer-Autumn rice crop must be planted with the motto "as soon as possible" and put safety and efficiency first.

Accordingly, localities consider the time to harvest spring rice, the ability to distribute water to choose the time to sow seedlings, direct sowing and the seed structure to close the area and avoid floods, storms, and tropical depressions at the end of the season.

The Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee assigned the Department of Industry and Trade to coordinate with the Department of Agriculture and Environment to direct hydropower companies in the province to regulate water discharge at appropriate flow rates to ensure sufficient irrigation water for production and people's lives in downstream areas when there is a water shortage.

Nghe An Electricity will base on the 2025 Summer-Autumn crop production schedule to prioritize power supply for agricultural production, especially in localities and regions that cannot take the initiative in water supply, when electricity is needed to pump water for rice cultivation and irrigation.

“The province will issue a Directive to mobilize resources and focus on directing successful production. It requires all levels, sectors, specialized units and localities to focus on directing and implementing production organization and propose coordination mechanisms and specific solutions to decentralize responsibilities to effectively direct production in the context of restructuring the apparatus,” said comrade Nguyen Van De.

Nghe An will implement support policies to encourage people to invest in production; strengthen the direction of implementing support policies to protect rice-growing land; direct and support resources to focus on developing production and cultivation in the direction of ensuring sufficient conditions for export, gradually building concentrated growing areas that meet standards ready to serve processing, domestic consumption and export.