Farmers harvest young cassava to escape flood

(Baonghean.vn) - Due to the prolonged heavy rain, many crop areas in the western region of Nghe An were affected and damaged. In Dong Van commune (Tan Ky), many cassava areas were at risk of rotting, so people simultaneously pulled them out and sold them prematurely.

In Buc hamlet, many people mobilized manpower to pull cassava. Because according to people in this area, just soaking in water for a few days, cassava will rot, causing great damage.

Due to the impact of the flood, most of the farmers' cassava fields were flooded.

Farmers are rushing to harvest young cassava after the rainy season to avoid the cassava dying and rotting.

Like every year, there is still more than a month left for the cassava farmers to harvest and import to the factory, but this year due to the heavy rain and flooding, the cassava leaves are yellow and more than half of them are about to die. If they are not harvested within two more days, the tubers will rot.

Worried that floods and rains will continue in the coming days, people are focusing on harvesting young cassava.

And collect the amount of cassava after harvest for traders to buy and transport.

Young cassava roots are pulled out early, affecting the quality of starch and price. If the cassava is of good quality, the factory will buy it for an average of 1,200 - 1,400 VND/kg. However, because selling young cassava reduces the quality, after measuring the amount of starch, the factory will only buy it for 1,100 VND/kg.

Every day traders come to buy from 12 to 18 tons of young cassava.

Phuong Thuy