Pumping station in Nghe An operates at full capacity to nourish summer-autumn rice
The past few days have been scorching hot, many rice fields have suffered from drought, pumping stations in Nghe An are operating at full capacity, in time to nourish the summer-autumn rice crop.
These days, electric pumping stations in Tan Ky district are operating day and night to provide timely water to combat drought for summer-autumn rice. Mr. Dang Xuan Huy - Head of Roi pumping station in Ky Tan commune said: The pumping station has 2 machines with a capacity of 980 m3/hour, in recent days the pump has been operating at full capacity 24/24 hours to irrigate over 100 hectares of summer-autumn rice in the two communes of Ky Tan and Ky Son.
Each pumping session is expected to last 10-12 days, with workers at the pumping station taking turns regulating and forcing water from the canal system to the fields.
Mr. Bach Thanh Huyen - Chairman of Tan Ky Irrigation Company Limited said: The unit manages irrigation for over 3,200 hectares of summer-autumn rice. In recent days, the hot weather has been continuous, so 6 electric pumping stations along the Con River, such as Cay Khe pumping station in Nghia Hop commune, Roi pumping station in Ky Tan commune, Lang Rao pumping station in Tan Huong commune... have to operate at full capacity. In order to ensure effective pumping, from the beginning of the season, the unit has focused on maintaining and repairing pumps, dredging and clearing canals in the fields.
The unit plans to place field oil pumps in Nghia Hoan commune when drought occurs. The current difficulty is that if the hot weather continues, Tan Ky will have about 300 hectares of rice at risk of drought in Nghia Dung, Ky Tan, Nghia Hop communes...
Similarly, at this time, the pumping station system in Do Luong district is also operating at full capacity. A representative of Do Luong Irrigation Enterprise shared: The unit manages 3 pumping stations, including Van Trang 1 and Van Trang 2 pumping stations in Van Son commune and Nhan Son pumping station in Nhan Son commune, irrigating over 7,800 hectares of summer-autumn rice in the entire Do Luong district.
During this heat wave, workers take turns pumping 24/7. To be effective, we follow the motto "watering from high places first, watering from low places later", thereby promoting and encouraging people to use water sparingly.
To cope with the drought, Do Luong district has directed communes to proactively prepare field pumps to serve drought prevention. For areas at risk of water shortage such as Tru Son, Dai Son, Giang Son Dong, Giang Son Tay communes, they can switch to vegetable production.
Nam Irrigation Company Limited manages 46 pumping stations, serving irrigation for 18,000 hectares of rice, currently operating at full capacity to ensure water for rice irrigation for Vinh city. Mr. Bui Van Hao - Chairman of Nam Irrigation Company Limited said: In addition to pumping water directly to irrigate rice, from June 11 to now, the unit has deployed 15/46 pumping stations to pump water to create sources for localities, from which communes continue to pump water to irrigate rice.
For downstream pumping stations along the Cam River in Nghi Loc District and the Rum River in Hung Nguyen District, the unit regularly checks the salinity of the water to avoid saltwater intrusion when pumping. The unit also prepares 15 field oil pumps to be placed at dead-end river locations and ponds to irrigate rice during droughts.
According to the report of the Irrigation Department, this is the peak period for water supply for summer-autumn rice and winter-spring rice cultivation, however, the weather in the province is unfavorable, with severe heat, some areas have suffered from drought and are at risk of drought.
To ensure irrigation water supply for summer-autumn crop production, Nghe An currently has over 702 pumping stations managed by agricultural cooperatives and irrigation units. Currently, all pumping stations are operating at full capacity to promptly irrigate rice.
The agricultural sector requires localities and irrigation management units to closely coordinate and regularly check water resources and salinity levels in rivers, canals and at pumping stations. Direct grassroots irrigation organizations to manage water resources, prevent leakage and water loss, and distribute water reasonably and economically.
Localities organize dredging of canal systems, water intake gates, and suction tanks of irrigation pumping stations to ensure water flow and ventilation from the source to the fields, taking advantage of all water sources for production.
Focus on getting water into the system when hydroelectric reservoirs discharge, increase water resources; utilize lagoons, ponds, lakes, and large canals to store water in the fields. Repair, maintain, and service existing oil pumping stations and field electric pumps, and be ready to operate irrigation pumps when droughts and water shortages occur.
For the People's Committees of districts, cities and towns, review, evaluate and rebalance the actual water resources to arrange summer-autumn crops suitable to the specific conditions of the locality, on that basis direct the conversion of crop structure appropriately. Areas that do not have enough irrigation water must be converted to other crops, in order to ensure the planting of the entire area and the proposed food output.
