province, bordering Cambodia, decided to expand the project to include vegetable farmers. Official Dang Thanh Phong says that expanding the project to include vegetable farms was an obvious choice. Image: Farmers Nguyen Van Ray and Nguyen Thi Hai say the new project has saved their rice
"The pesticide usage level in vegetable growing is much higher than in rice production," he told DW. "They spray once every three or four days."Farmer Huynh Ngoc Dien, one of the vegetable farmers taking part in the pilot stage of the ecological engineering project, says he’s reduced the amount of pesticide he sprays by 20 percent."When I grow nectar flowers I am not worried, but some people in our village still spray pesticides, people inside and outside the project," he says. "It’s still the first time for them so they don’t know the benefits they can get if they just opt for flowers."
Sacramento River agencies get boost in federal water Tim Hearden Published:April 18, 2014 5:35PM
Settlement contractors along the Sacramento River in Northern California will see a boost in planned federal water deliveries to 75 percent of normal, officials announced. State contractors without senior water rights will get 5 percent of their allotments instead of zero, but deliveries won't be made until after Sept. 1.REDDING, Calif. — Farmers in some water districts along the Sacramento River will be the first to see a benefit from recent storms’ contributions to California’s meager snowpack and reservoir levels. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has increased water allocations to settlement contractors along the river from 40 percent to 75 percent of their normal amounts, its leaders announced April 18. Wildlife refuges north of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta will see a similar increase.The roughly 145 water districts and individuals with 50-year-old contracts recognizing their senior water rights include the Glenn-Colusa Irrigation District, which covers 175,000 acres in the middle Sacramento Valley, and the Anderson Cottonwood Irrigation District between Redding and Red Bluff.The allocation boost should help many of Northern California’s most lucrative crops, including rice, which is normally planted in late April and early May. Industry leaders had expressed concerns that a lack of water could significantly reduce rice plantings this spring.Water districts said the shifts in delivery shouldn’t impat rice planting, asserted Ron Milligan, a Bureau of Reclamation operations manager in Sacramento.
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