Yen Thanh: 'Fleeing floods', farmers harvest rice at night
(Baonghean.vn) - With the motto 'green house is better than old field', Yen Thanh district is actively speeding up the summer-autumn rice harvest to avoid floods, and deploy the winter crop.
In Nhan Thanh commune, there are 560 hectares of summer-autumn rice, 100% of which is flooded when it rains heavily. At this time, the rice is about 75-80% ripe, but the commune has directed people to harvest early to avoid damage due to flooding; currently, over 70% of the harvest has been harvested, and it is expected to be completed around August 25.
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| At night, across the fields of Yen Thanh district, combine harvesters run at full capacity to harvest the summer-autumn rice to avoid flooding. Photo: Van Truong |
Mr. Nguyen Van Duong - Head of Yen Thanh Agriculture Department said that the whole district planted more than 12,500 hectares of summer-autumn rice; up to this point, more than 5,000 hectares have been harvested. Of which, the low-lying area of more than 3,500 hectares concentrated in the communes of Nhan Thanh, Long Thanh, Khanh Thanh, Bao Thanh, Nam Thanh... has been harvested at over 90%. All localities have put combine harvesters into operation, it is expected that the low-lying areas will be harvested by August 30; the hills and highlands will be harvested before September 10.
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| Currently, there are about 160 harvesters working in the area and have harvested 1,500/3,500 hectares. After harvesting, farmers urgently produce the winter crop. Photo: Van Truong |
This year, due to stormy weather, rice yield reached about 5 tons/ha, down 5-6 tons/ha compared to last year.
The district directed that after the summer-autumn harvest, winter crops will be grown on over 3,000 hectares, of which corn is 1,500 hectares and the rest are vegetables of all kinds.
Van Truong
