Immediately after the summer-autumn rice harvest, many localities in Cam Xuyen district (Ha Tinh) launched a campaign to concentrate, accumulate, and convert land to prepare for the 2024 spring crop production.

In Sau Doi field (Trung Nam village, Cam Thanh commune, Cam Xuyen district), dozens of machines and trucks were mobilized to break the banks of small plots, forming large plots; renovate the fields, build embankments and complete the infrastructure for traffic and irrigation. High and dry fields were renovated, low-lying fields were leveled to facilitate water drainage for production.

Immediately after the end of the summer-autumn crop, Cam Thanh commune organized the third land conversion campaign in Trung Nam village.

After 10 days of operation, the field has been basically completed. In the middle of the field is a 7m wide internal road; on both sides of the road, people have built small 2m wide banks, with water channels attached to serve irrigation.

Mr. Nguyen Hung Vy - Head of Trung Nam village shared: "This rice field has never implemented the demolition of small plots, so the fields are still fragmented, with some plots only 100 ^m2 wide. The entire field is 10 hectares wide but there are 193 plots with 154 households participating in production. When converting large plots of land, we will bring each plot at least 1,000 ^m2 wide, the largest plot is about 4,000 ^m2 . After converting Sau Doi field, the village will continue to convert land in other fields. The total converted area this year is about 26 hectares".

Trung Nam village strives to convert land on a total area of ​​about 26 hectares.

In addition to Trung Nam village, after the summer-autumn rice harvest, Cam Thanh commune also focused on directing Nam Bac Thanh village to renovate and convert land for the third time with an area of ​​about 25 hectares. In the immediate future, the local government will focus on breaking the small-plot embankments, renovating, re-planning the fields and completing the infrastructure for transportation, irrigation, and embankment construction. After the fields have been re-planned, Cam Thanh commune will measure the area; agree on a land allocation plan to hand over to the people in time for the 2024 spring crop.

As the locality registering the largest area of ​​land conversion in Cam Xuyen district in 2023, Yen Hoa commune is currently mobilizing dozens of machines to re-plan the fields, starting from Yen Quy and Yen Thanh villages with a total area of ​​124.5 hectares.

The local government supports 3 million VND/ha to help people rent machinery to carry out the conversion work. The locality strives to complete the redistribution of land to hand over to the people before November 18, 2023.

Yen Hoa commune exhumed 113 graves during the third land conversion process in Yen Quy and Yen Khanh villages.

Mr. Tran Cong Huyen - Vice Chairman of Yen Hoa Commune People's Committee said: "On these 2 fields, we have excavated and relocated 113 graves. The commune is speeding up the planning work, moving towards focusing on redistributing the fields to each household to cultivate 1 plot. Previously, in 2022, the commune converted land in 5 villages with an area of ​​304.4 hectares. The converted fields create conditions for synchronous application of mechanization in production, reducing costs and labor, and increasing economic efficiency by 10 - 15% compared to before".

Continuing the success of previous crops, Cam Xuyen district strives to focus on converting an additional 465.5 hectares of land (with 2,128 households) of 11 villages in 9 communes: Cam Binh (11.4 hectares), Cam Thanh (51 hectares), Cam Lac (47 hectares), Cam Quan (30 hectares), Yen Hoa (124.5 hectares), Nam Phuc Thang (51 hectares), Cam Duong (80.6 hectares), Cam Quang (30 hectares) and Cam Thach (40 hectares).

In recent days, machines have been working continuously on the fields in Cam Xuyen to build embankments and dikes to re-plan the fields into large-scale fields.

Mr. Le Van Danh - Head of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Cam Xuyen district said: "Up to now, Cam Xuyen district has carried out land consolidation and issued certificates after conversion for more than 711 hectares in 17 villages of 6 communes. In the converted areas, over 90% of households cultivate one plot and form large-scale model fields, specialized areas for large-scale concentrated commodity production, contributing to improving productivity, quality and income for producers. In the coming time, the district will continue to establish more cooperatives or cooperatives to organize production in the converted areas; attract businesses to invest to promote restructuring and develop agriculture in a modern and sustainable direction".

Phan Tram