To avoid the heat, Nghe An people use lamps to pull out seedlings and plant rice at night.

SeasonSummer-Autumn planting is taking place amid the hottest days. To adapt to the harsh weather conditions, people in some localities in the province have switched to working at night. At night, the fields in the planting season are lit up by sparkling lights. Photo: Huy Thu

In the rice fields, people gathered in large numbers to pull out the seedlings. According to farmers, pulling out seedlings at night, the weather is cool, the labor is productive, healthy, and ensures the seedlings do not dry out. In the photo: People of Xuan Tuong commune (Thanh Chuong) are pulling out seedlings at night. Photo: Huy Thu

Most people pull out the seedlings by hand, while some households use sickles. Now the seedlings are tall, strong, the fields are dry, and the soil is moist, so pulling out the seedlings is relatively easy. Photo: Huy Thu

At night, going to the fields to pull out rice seedlings and plant rice requires light. People use many types of lights: motorbike lights, hand-held flashlights, rechargeable lights, headlamps... To create a cheerful atmosphere, phones are also turned on to play cheerful music. Some people go to work in the afternoon with palm leaves to block the sun. At night, the palm leaves are the place to hang the lights. Photo: Huy Thu

Rechargeable lamps are effective in rice fields, providing enough light for many households to pull out rice seedlings. Photo: Huy Thu

Mr. Nguyen Duy Can - Secretary of the Party Cell of Xuan Tuong Hamlet, Xuan Tuong Commune (Thanh Chuong) said: The whole hamlet has 251 households, of which 170 households are farmers, more than 100 households participated in night-time rice seedling pulling and night-time planting in the fields. Photo: Huy Thu

In hot weather, people push up the night-time rice planting to plant as much land as possible. Working at night, chatting happily, people also relieve their fatigue. Photo: Huy Thu

Mr. Nguyen Van Ba ​​(55 years old) in Truong Linh hamlet, Xuan Tuong commune shared: His family has 4 sao of rice fields. For the past few nights, he and his wife have been out in the fields pulling up seedlings and planting at night. Pulling up "open" seedlings does not require shaking or beating like pulling up mud seedlings. After pulling, just tie them into small bundles with straw. Photo: Huy Thu

Many people go to harvest rice seedlings at night, working until 1-2am. When they have harvested a certain amount of seedlings, they put them in bags, carry them to the shore and transport them home by motorbike or cart. Photo: Huy Thu

Many couples quickly finish pulling the seedlings and put them on the truck to go to the fields to plant. Doing two jobs in one night (pulling seedlings and planting rice) is a bit tiring, but farmers still try their best before sunrise. Photo: Huy Thu

According to farmers, night planting is as "comfortable" as pulling rice seedlings at night. However, because you can only see in a narrow space, night planting is often not as straight as day planting. During this hot season, depending on each family's circumstances, they decide to work all night or just work part of the night, then go home to sleep, and wake up around 3:00 - 3:30 in the morning to continue working. Working at night during the harvest season for farmers is an effective way to avoid the sun. Photo: Huy Thu