Nam Dan: Hundreds of rice fields flooded

(Baonghean.vn) - After heavy rain and strong winds occurred on the evening of September 10, hundreds of hectares of summer-autumn rice in Nam Dan district were flooded. Currently, people are still concentrating on the fields using all means to harvest the rice.

Many summer-autumn rice fields in Nam Dan district were flattened and flooded.

The entire Nam Dan district has more than 600 hectares of summer-autumn rice, more than 70% of which has ripened. The heavy rain and strong winds last night (September 10) caused most of the rice fields in some communes such as Nam Xuan, Nam Anh, Xuan Hoa, and Nam Linh to be flattened, and some areas were flooded.

With the motto "green house is better than old field", Nam Dan farmers focus on harvesting to avoid crop loss.

Mr. Ho Dinh Thang, Deputy Head of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Nam Dan district, said: People are concentrating on escaping the flood to harvest rice. The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has consulted the district People's Committee for specific instructions. Up to now, the summer-autumn rice crop has ripened 60-80% and the district has issued an official dispatch directing the communes to promptly implement the harvest to ensure rice productivity.

People in Nam Xuan commune have to harvest fallen rice by hand.

In higher areas, people take advantage of using harvesters before it rains.

Recorded in some fields in Nam Xuan commune, due to the forecast of continued heavy rain in the coming days, people are actively harvesting the fallen rice fields. Due to the fallen rice, people in some places have to harvest by hand. In addition, threshing machines and combine harvesters are mobilized to ensure the harvest progress, minimizing damage caused by rain.

Pham Dong