Nghe An farmers join hands to plant rice and cut grass to help families in quarantine

The Summer-Autumn rice crop in Thanh Chuong took place right during the epidemic days.Covid-19The situation is complicated, while some families are having to quarantine to prevent the epidemic, making production difficult.

Women in Hanh Lam commune (Thanh Chuong) join hands to plant rice to help their families during quarantine. Photo: Huy Thu

Faced with that situation, local organizations such as the Women's Union, Farmers' Union, and Youth Union joined hands to help and share in times of difficulty and hardship.

Recently, in hamlet 5, Hanh Lam commune, the Women's Union mobilized dozens of women to participate in 2 days of work in the fields, pulling up seedlings and planting 3 fields for a member family in the hamlet.

Working with the spirit of "Families can rest assured about quarantine, the sisters will take care of the rice fields", this activity has helped members' families to quarantine and produce crops in time.

Women in Thanh Duong commune (Thanh Chuong) join hands to help families carry out quarantine. Photo: Huy Thu

Along with rice planting is rice replanting (replanting on fields that have been sown but many of the rice have died). In Duong Tay hamlet, Thanh Duong commune, in the middle of a hot day, many women in the hamlet joined hands to replant rice for Ms. Dinh Thi Ngan's family.

Thanks to the positive working spirit of "helping others as well as helping oneself", many of Ms. Ngan's family's rice fields have been carefully replanted by the women in the neighborhood.

Collective labor amid the complicated epidemic days, local Women's Unions have thoroughly instructed women to strictly wear masks.face maskepidemic prevention while working in the field

People in Thanh Yen commune (Thanh Chuong) cut elephant grass to help families in quarantine. Photo: Huy Thu

In addition, in Thanh Yen and Thanh Luong communes (Thanh Chuong), members of the Farmers', Women's and Youth Unions take turns going to the fields every day to cut elephant grass and water spinach, transporting them home to help families in quarantine raise livestock and poultry.

Ensuring that in quarantine conditions, not being allowed to go out, households can still raise livestock and produce, thanks to the help of local organizations and people. Movementfarmerjoin hands to help each other during the epidemic that is spreading in many communes in Thanh Chuong.

Some households are quarantined, but production activities are still supported by local people. Photo: Huy Thu

In Hung Nghia commune (Hung Nguyen), due to the impact of the Covid 19 epidemic, the guava farm of Mr. Nguyen Van Tuat's family in hamlet 1 has ripened, but cannot be sold. If the harvest time is prolonged, the guava will be spoiled.

In that situation, promoting the spirit of shock and volunteerism for community life of the youth, Hung Nguyen District Youth Union and Hung Nghia Commune Youth Union have implemented the program "Connecting agricultural products - sharing love" to join hands to pick and sell guava to help Mr. Tuat's family. Through many different sales channels, in the past 2 days, local youth have sold more than 1 ton of guava...

Youth Union members of Hung Nghia commune (Hung Nguyen) pick and sell guava to help Mr. Tuat's family. Photo: Phan Sao

Recently, in addition to donation activities, joining hands to process food, make splash shields to give to epidemic prevention posts, quarantine areas... farmers and local organizations have also coordinated with each other to help families in quarantine, farming households facing difficulties in selling goods... through many specific actions.

These activities have promoted the spirit of mutual assistance, which is extremely practical in promptly encouraging disadvantaged families, while demonstrating the spirit of solidarity in the village, sharing, and overcoming the pandemic together.