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Floods damage 2,000ha of rice in Mekong Delta

The annual flooding in the Mekong Delta has damaged more than 2,000ha of rice this year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s Directorate of Water Resources.
Floods damage 2,000ha of rice in Mekong Delta ảnh 1About 150ha of rice in Hamlet 2, Thanh Loi commune, in Dong Thap province’s Thap Muoi district were inundated after the Mekong Delta’s annual flooding broke embankments last month (Photo: VNA)

HCM City(VNS/VNA) - The annual flooding in the Mekong Delta has damaged more than2,000ha of rice this year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment’s Directorate of Water Resources.  

More than 1,270ha of thecrop in An Giang province, 316ha in Kien Giang and 182ha in Dong Thap were totallydestroyed while 265ha in Dong Thap and 24ha in Long An were damaged.

Most of the destroyedand damaged fields are in areas without embankments while the rest were damagedbecause their embankments were broken or too low. 

High tides too have beenaffecting agricultural production in the region, especially in Ben Tre and SocTrang provinces and Can Tho city.

Nguyen Van Tam, Directorof Kien Giang province’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, saidthat in order to cope with the flooding, delta provinces and Can Tho city haveplans in place this year to prevent damages before and during the season.

They have consolidatedembankments in many places to protect the summer-autumn and autumn-winter ricecrops, he said.

Local authorities havestepped up dissemination of information about the flood situation to helpfarmers keep losses to the minimum.

They have helped farmersharvest the summer-autumn rice crop early in places where embankments are weakor low to avoid losses due to floods.

The flooding caused bythe rising levels in the Mekong River during the rainy season is declining nowand will not have cause further damage to agricultural production, according tothe directorate.

However, in theremaining months of the year, high tides would increase the water level in ricefields along rivers in the delta’s central and coastal areas and causeinundation, it warned.

The directorate has toldthe delta’s provinces and Can Tho to carefully monitor tides next month.

They should regularlyinspect and strengthen embankments in areas where the water level is high to avoiddamage to crops, it said.-VNS/VNA
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