Regardless of sun or rain, winter or summer, whenever the planting season arrives, officers from the Tam Hop Border Guard Post in Nghe An province wade through the mud to help the local people cultivate their land.
A man named He Qingguang set off spectacular fireworks shaped like rice plants to commemorate Yuan Longping, the "Father of Hybrid Rice," in southern China.
Police officers and soldiers from Ung Hoa district (Hanoi) went to the fields to help Mr. Nguyen Van Then's family finish planting rice on 6 sao (approximately 0.6 hectares) of land in the morning.
Mr. Nguyen Van Vu's nearly 100-year-old guava tree (Cho Moi, An Giang) has its roots completely eroded, but it still blossoms and bears fruit all year round.
Hanoi Party Secretary Vuong Dinh Hue and Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee Chu Ngoc Anh personally went down to the rice fields to encourage people to develop production.
In recent days, farmers in Liep Tuyet commune (Quoc Oai district, Hanoi) have been going to the fields to plant rice from 4 am to avoid the heat and ensure their health.
Brown planthoppers and yellow dwarf leaf curl have always been enemies of rice farmers. After many field visits and years of farming experience, Mr. Hai Thuan invented an effective planthopper control spraying system.
To meet planting schedules, many farmers in Truc Ninh, Nam Dinh, have to spend a considerable amount of money hiring laborers to plant rice, but they still find it very difficult to find workers.
This method involves planting a narrow row of seedlings spaced about 15cm apart, followed by a wide row spaced about 40cm apart, with clumps spaced about 15cm apart, averaging about 13-16 clumps/m2.