One of the six WIPO’s (the World Intellectual Property Organization) prizes has been awarded to the most excellent female scientific research work author – Vietnamese Dr Nguyen Thi Loc, for her environment friendly bio-products.
Loc, from the Mekong Delta Rice Institute, has received the prize for her work “the technological procedure to make Ometar and Biovip – the two biopesticide products”. The products made with the new technology have high and stable quality. Especially, they do not cause the environment pollution.
Dr Nguyen Thi Loc and her colleagues
Farmers save trillions of dong with
friendly bio-preparations
The bio-product has a big advantage that farmers just need to spray one time to
have the effect throughout the crop. Ometar could be used to kill stinkbugs if
the rice is attacked by the buck. Besides, Ometar could also be useful to harm
coconut beetles.
If compared with the plant protection chemicals, the use of the bio-product
allows reducing the cost to kill pests by 10 times. Meanwhile, it does not
pollute the environment, which is considered the biggest advantage, and does
not kill natural enemies.
Especially, it is great that Ometar is sprayed to kill pests in the flowering
period. Scientists believe that this is the most reasonable period to use
biopesticide, because this would not affect the quality of rice and the crop
yield. If spraying chemical pesticides during the flowering period, this would
affect the pollination of particle, thus leading to the lower productivity.
Farmers can make biopesticide at low
costs
With so many advantages, the bio-products can bring the benefit of trillions of
dong to farmers a year.
Over the last 17 years, Dr Loc joined the scientific research in 40 projects.
She has been most interested in the project on making the two bio-products to
control pesticide, which were highly appreciated scientifically. The two
products were granted the “golden rice” award by the Can Tho International Farm
Produce and Seafood Trade Fair some years ago.
It always takes a long time to bring scientific research works into life.
Though the two bio-products were recognized as having high effects in
preventing and killing pests that harm rice fields and the pests that harm
coconuts in Mekong Delta, the modest output of the bio-products would not help
protect farm produce from insects.
According to Loc, some years ago, the insect epidemic broke out, while only
three tons of bio-products were put out a month; far below the demanded volume
of 100 tons a month in the region. Though the product was friendly to the
environment, the production cost was overly high, and the production could not
satisfy the demand.
Therefore, since 2007, Loc has begun her work to find out a reasonable
technological procedure to make the two products at low costs. Loc believed
that the technology could be so simple that the products can be made by farmers
themselves.
In 2008, Loc gladly announced that she and her colleagues successfully found
out a fast manufacturing process to make out Ometar at the household scale. The
technology is simple and is easy to be applied. Therefore, it has been
transferred to thousands of farmer households in seven provinces and cities in
Mekong Delta.
The technology has also been transferred to the technical officers of the
centers for utilizing scientific achievements in Binh Thuan and Binh Dinh
province. Most recently, Ometar has been used to the rice fields in Quoc Oai
district of Hanoi. Some other localities including Tien Giang, Bac Lieu, Ca Mau
and Ninh Thuan have asked for the technology transfer.
Farmers just have to pay 200,000 dong for every hectare for every time of
spraying. If farmers can make the products themselves, they would have to spend
50,000 dong only, which allows them to save 1.5-2 million dong per hectares in comparison
with chemical pesticide.
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