Nghe An salt farmers continue to produce salt after the storm

(Baonghean.vn) - After storm No. 2 passed, taking advantage of the sunny weather, salt farmers in Quynh Luu (Nghe An) urgently went to the fields to clean up the ponds and repair the warehouse to continue salt production.

Ms. Tran Thi Thuy's family in hamlet 8, Quynh Minh commune (Quynh Luu) has 3.5 slices of salt - equivalent to about 230m² production area; on average, a family harvests 3-5 quintals of salt grains per day. After drying, the salt is stored in a warehouse waiting for traders to come and buy it all at once.

When hearing that storm No. 2 was forecast to hit Nghe An, her family carefully tied up and covered the salt warehouse. However, on the evening of July 16, strong winds and rain blew away the corrugated iron roof and collapsed 3.5 meters of the warehouse wall, and at the same time, swept away much of the family's salt, causing considerable economic damage.

Ms. Tran Thi Thuy in hamlet 8, Quynh Minh commune (Quynh Luu) cleans the filter tank after the storm. Photo: Nhu Thuy

After the storm passed and the weather cleared up, Ms. Thuy and the villagers took advantage of the opportunity to go to the salt fields to clean the filter tanks, change the canal water, and rebuild the salt warehouse to continue production.

The entire Quynh Luu district has about 600 hectares of salt production, concentrated in the communes of Quynh Yen, Quynh Minh, Quynh Tho, Quynh Thuan, Quynh Nghia and An Hoa. According to the district's statistics, storm No. 2 blew off the roofs of 174 salt warehouses, swept away 313 tons of salt and damaged more than 100 km of salt fields, causing great damage to salt farmers estimated at about 4 billion VND.

Salt farmers change the water to re-coat the floor for salt production. Photo: Nhu Thuy

After the storm, Quynh Luu district deployed statistics, review and overcome the damage to the people. The district assigned officials in charge of each field of agriculture, salt industry, livestock and aquaculture to coordinate with 33 communes and towns to accurately count the damage caused by the storm to report to the district to have a plan to promptly support the people with funds.

At the same time, people were encouraged to go to the fields to overcome the consequences, repair the ponds, rebuild the warehouses to continue producing salt and vegetables when the sun comes out./.

Nhu Thuy