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Dry-season rice crop exceeds target by more than 200,000ha
Tue, 9 March 2021
The dry-season rice crop this year of more than 600,000ha has exceeded the planned goal by over 200,000ha, or 137.39 per cent of the original total of just over 400,000ha.
The excess of more than 200,000ha has yielded a million tonnes of rice with an annual average of 4.41 tonnes per hectare, according to a February report from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries seen by The Post on March 9.
The report, dated March 5, said until now, the output of dry-season rice has achieved 630,883ha or 137.39 per cent of the planned 459,200ha. The harvesting of an extra 247,089ha totals 1,090,334 tonnes of dry-season rice, an average yield of 4.41 tonne per hectare.
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