Nghe An farmers urgently harvest summer-autumn rice to avoid storm No. 4

According to the forecast of the North Central Hydrometeorological Station, storm No. 4 named Podul is active in the East Sea and is likely to directly affect the provinces from Thanh Hoa to Quang Binh. To prevent the storm from bringing heavy rain, today (August 28), farmers in the districts of the province are actively harvesting all the ripe rice fields.

At noon on August 28, in the fields of Nam Loc and Van Dien communes (Nam Dan), many harvesters were operating. The price of harvesting rice fluctuated around 140,000 VND/sao. Farmers were afraid of rain, so everyone wanted to harvest first. Around the harvesters, many farmers were waiting.

With the concept of "better at home than in the fields", in places where harvesters cannot enter, farmers are actively using personal harvesters or sickles to cut rice manually.

The afternoon rains in the past few days have made some deep rice fields watery and muddy, making rice harvesting quite difficult. Ms. Vo Thi Ly (42 years old) in Vo Liet commune (Thanh Chuong) said that her family has more than 3 sao of Khang Dan rice, although it is not quite ripe yet, but today she will harvest it all, afraid that the storm will not come and she will not be able to harvest.

Learning from experience from many years ago, when storms come, they often cause heavy rain, lasting for many days, sometimes flooding, so these days, farmers are trying to harvest all the ripe rice under possible conditions, especially in deep, waterlogged fields, making harvesting and transporting difficult. In the photo: A woman in Thanh Yen commune (Thanh Chuong) is transporting rice in a deep field.

Currently, districts such as Do Luong, Thanh Chuong, Nam Dan... have many areas of ripe rice being harvested by people to avoid the storm and many areas of straw in the fields have not been collected yet due to afternoon rains.

Due to storm No. 4, the weather has changed, causing erratic rain and sunshine, negatively affecting the summer-autumn crop harvest. The farmers' viewpoint is to collect the straw as the harvester arrives, not to dry it in the field to avoid heavy rain.

People in Nhan Son commune (Do Luong) actively transport straw home by ox cart.

According to farmers, this summer-autumn crop, due to harsh weather, has failed, and after deducting expenses, there are not many places where they only harvest without threshing. The crop has already failed, and if there is a storm and they cannot harvest in time, the failure will be even greater.

Motorbikes, electric bicycles and motor vehicles were all mobilized to transport straw and rice back home. Hopefully, with the activeness of farmers when storm No. 4 made landfall, most of the summer-autumn rice fields in the districts have been harvested.