Vinh inner city ward 'invites' people to dry rice in the stadium
Vinh City is encouraging people to dry rice indoors or in the ward or commune stadiums or cultural houses of the block, to ensure traffic safety and urban beauty.
Vinh City has a spring rice area of 1,400 hectares, mainly concentrated in suburban communes such as Nghi Lien, Nghi Duc, Nghi An... and some inner-city wards such as Hung Dung, Dong Vinh...
Due to the weather and soil characteristics, the spring rice planting and harvesting is somewhat later than in other districts and towns. Currently, people in wards and communes have basically finished harvesting the spring rice crop and are focusing on drying the rice.
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Nguyen Duy Trinh Street, Hung Dung Ward, Vinh City has become a hot spot for many years now, as people have finished harvesting their crops and are drying their rice on the street. This is a busy street, especially with schools and the ward People's Committee headquarters, so drying rice always poses a potential risk of traffic accidents and traffic jams during rush hour.
However, this year, according to the reporter's records, this situation has clearly decreased. The roadside is no longer turned into a rice drying yard, some households only dry rice in a small area in front of their house, not affecting passersby too much.
To achieve such positive results is thanks to the propaganda and mobilization work of the Hung Dung ward government. Accordingly, the ward allows people after harvesting rice to bring it to the ward stadium, which has a fairly large area for drying, minimizing the use of roads and sidewalks to dry rice as before.
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Mr. Le Khac Hau - Vice Chairman of Hung Dung Ward People's Committee said: The whole ward currently has 121 hectares of spring rice. The act of people drying rice encroaching on the roadway and sidewalk is against the regulations. Therefore, the ward has opened a stadium, allowing people to bring rice in to dry.
This has helped clear the streets, reduce congestion and the risk of accidents, and people raking rice, packing it... is also safer than doing it in the middle of the road like before. After realizing its effectiveness, the ward will maintain this measure in the following crop seasons.
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Ms. Nguyen Thi Hue, Hung Dung Ward said: My family has more than 3 sao of spring rice that was harvested last week. Because the alley is small and the yard has a corrugated iron roof, in previous years we had to take the rice out to dry on the street. We know it affects traffic, but there is no other way. This year, the ward created conditions for people to bring the rice to the stadium, so they were very excited and did it seriously.
Dong Vinh Ward is also a locality with large rice and crop areas in Vinh City. Previously, people still dried rice on sidewalks and roadsides. However, this situation is now gradually being improved.
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Mr. Nguyen Xuan Toan - Chairman of Dong Vinh Ward People's Committee said: Currently, many agricultural land areas in the area have been transferred to implement projects. The rice area is not much left, however, the ward has announced to encourage people to bring agricultural products to dry at the ward stadium or the cultural house of 12 blocks, not to dry on the streets because of the potential for traffic accidents as well as loss of urban beauty.
The ward has also assigned the authorities to regularly inspect and monitor the drying of agricultural products by local residents. If there is encroachment on the roadway or sidewalk, they will promptly warn the residents.
Mr. Nguyen Xuan Toan - Chairman of Dong Vinh Ward People's Committee
