(Baonghean.vn) - A week has passed, but 'white tears' are still rolling down the rubber trees that were broken by the storm. Rubber growers are trying to salvage what they can after the storm.
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| More than a week after storm No. 2, decades-old rubber trees in Tan Ky are still oozing sap. Photo: Xuan Hoang |
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| Rubber growers compare the latex drops to "white tears", because after many years of care, just overnight the entire rubber garden collapsed, leaving people penniless. Now they can only hire sawmill workers to cut down and sell firewood and wood. Photo: Xuan Hoang |
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| Officials of Song Con Agricultural Company Limited and local people are heartbroken over rubber plantations that have been broken by the storm for more than a week now but have yet to find a solution. According to the company's statistics, storm No. 2 caused nearly 58,000 rubber trees to fall, and more than 20,000 trees had to be liquidated. Photo: Quang An |
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| Rubber trees take 6 years to grow before being tapped for latex, but after just one storm, everything was destroyed. Photo: Quang An |
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| People stand in shock in front of a collapsed rubber garden, having lost their daily income from the rubber trees that their families have spent years taking care of. Photo: Xuan Hoang |
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| For rubber trees that are tilted and can be restored, people cut off branches and tops, use sticks to prop them up, and continue to take care of them so that they can tap latex next year. In the photo, Mr. Le Van Tuan's family in Tan Xuan hamlet, Tan Phu commune (Tan Ky) has 1.1 hectares of rubber trees. Storm No. 2 caused 200 trees to tilt and 25 to fall. His family hired an excavator to pull up the tilted trees to prop them up; the cost of renting the machine and labor to restore the tilted trees alone cost nearly 20 million VND. Photo: Xuan Hoang |
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| These days, chainsaw mechanics in Tan Ky are always busy cleaning up rubber plantations that have fallen after the storm; some chainsaw mechanics are hired by rubber plantation owners from Thanh Hoa. In the photo, Mr. Vo Van Thanh in Nhu Thanh district, Thanh Hoa province is cutting rubber trees in a rubber plantation in Thai Yen hamlet, Tan Phu commune. Mr. Thanh said that he and 6 chainsaw mechanics have been cutting down fallen rubber trees here for a week now and still have not finished the work, there are still many families hiring them but they cannot keep up with the work. Photo: Quang An. |
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Storm No. 2 has caused severe damage to rubber trees in Tan Ky district, Thai Hoa town, Nghia Dan district, with over 1,000 hectares affected, hundreds of thousands of trees felled and had to be cut down. Currently, rubber growers are focusing on overcoming the consequences and cleaning up their gardens. Mr. Phan Thanh Hung - Director of Song Con Agricultural Company Limited said: Currently, traders buy rubber trees from farmers in 3 forms: wood, firewood and trees. The current selling price is 850,000 VND/ton of wood, 250,000 VND/m3 of firewood and 250,000 VND/tree planted for 20 years or more. Photo: Quang An |
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