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Nghe An farmers stay up all night to 'hunt' for earthworms in the fields

Huy Thu • November 16, 2024 10:47

After many sleepless nights of watching over the rice fields, people in the communes downstream of the Lam River have earned the first batches of “heavenly gifts”. This year, the rice fields surfaced late and were still rare, so traders competed to buy them.

These days, farmers in Chau Nhan and Hung Loi communes (Hung Nguyen) stay up all night to go to the fields to watch for worms. In the middle of the tenth lunar month, the rising tide in the fields recedes at midnight, sohunting for wormsquite hard. On the night of November 15, from 1-2 am, people carried their nets and went to the fields, sitting on the banks waiting for the tide to go down. Photo: Huy Thu

Local people said that this year the worms came to the fields late, so the people of the "worm village" had to spend many sleepless nights waiting for them. Around this time in previous years, the worms would have already come to the fields, but this year, only a few low-lying fields have them. Photo: Huy Thu

Nights in the fields of earthworms are more fun than at home, the fields are all sparkling with flashlights and rechargeable lamps. In the fields along the Lam River, the earthworms appear earlier than in other places, and people are busy pouring and collecting the earthworms. Photo: Huy Thu

People stay up all night to watch for the worms. When they hear that "the worms are floating", they feel happy. However, because the worms are not floating evenly, sometimes they are, sometimes they are not, many people wait for several hours and can only catch a few worms. Photo: Huy Thu

In the rice fields where there are many floating earthworms, people are busy hunting for earthworms. Every 10-15 minutes, people pour a batch of poles to collect earthworms. Photo: Huy Thu

However, there are also fields with very few floating worms. A resident of Hamlet 2 (old) of Chau Nhan Commune, who is waiting for the worms in a corner of his field, shared that he brought a net and a plastic bucket to the field quite early, but waited for a long time, lying down and sitting down, but his field still had no worms. It was almost dawn when he carried the net and left. Photo: Huy Thu

bna_8..jpg — This season, the riverbanks of the riverbeds are built high by the locals, the entrances to the worm traps are solidly built, and wooden bridges are built... quite convenient for setting up traps to catch the worms. Photo: Huy Thu

Many households have poured the first batches of the season, each batch from 2-4 kg of rươi. Mr. Cao Van Tuan, Phu Xuan hamlet, Chau Nhan commune excitedly said that his family's rươi field along the river has an area of 2 sao, last night he earned more than 100 rươi. Photo: Huy Thu

Mr. Vo Van Que - the household with the largest field of earthworms in Phu Xuan hamlet, Chau Nhan commune, said that his family has about 1 hectare of earthworm field (5 plots) and each earthworm season, they can earn hundreds of tons of earthworms, but on the night of November 15, only 2 plots had earthworms, collecting more than 200 kilograms. According to Mr. Que, the earthworm season will last until the end of the 11th lunar month. People here are hoping for the next waves of earthworms. Photo: Huy Thu

Early season earthworms are still rare, people have just brought them to the fields and customers have come to buy them. Some households have earthworms, traders come to their homes to compete to buy them. The price of earthworms at home is being sold by people in Chau Nhan commune at 350,000 VND/kg. Photo: Huy Thu

People of Chau Nhan commune (Hung Nguyen) hunt for earthworms at night. Photo: Huy Thu

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