North Central: Busy harvesting young rice to avoid storm

This is considered the most difficult summer-autumn rice crop in many years in the North Central region: right after planting, the young rice seedlings died from waterlogging, had to be re-sown due to unusual rain and floods, now near the end of the crop, had to harvest the young rice to avoid the storm.

Video : Harvesting young rice all night before storm No. 5 makes landfall

Throughout last night and into this morning (August 24), farmers in provinces and cities in the North Central region, from Hue City to Ha Tinh , were busy going to the fields, taking advantage of the time before it rained to harvest the summer-autumn rice crop, in order to salvage some of the effort and money spent on seeds and fertilizers.

In Quang Dien commune ( Hue city), the rice harvest is taking place very urgently. In the fields, combine harvesters operate at full capacity regardless of the hot sun or dark night. Farmers also take advantage of the clear weather to quickly dry the rice and collect straw.

Hard work harvesting summer-autumn rice to avoid the storm

Mr. Mai Van Hoa (Quang Dien commune) said that the low-lying area, which is the "flood center" of Hue city, so people had to race against time to save the rice before the storm hit, accompanied by heavy rain.

"Now people are sitting on fire, just hoping to harvest the rice and bring it home before storm No. 5 makes landfall. Harvesting the rice 5 days to 1 week earlier than the season will affect the yield and quality of the rice. But if they don't harvest, the storm will hit and break the rice, then heavy rain will cause flooding, the rice will sprout and be lost," said Mr. Hoa.

Farmers in Hoa Chau ward, Hue city harvest rice overnight

On the morning of August 24, more than 100 officers and soldiers of Regiment 6 under the Hue City Military Command marched to support farmers in loading rice and clearing the Phu Gia warehouse.

According to the report of the Department of Cultivation and Plant Protection of Hue City, the summer-autumn rice crop in the area planted 25,000 hectares of rice, and so far has harvested 1,500 hectares.

Currently, shock troops are being mobilized to the fields in the area to help farmers harvest rice following the motto "green at home is better than old in the fields", in order to minimize damage caused by storm No. 5.

Mobilize maximum harvesters to harvest summer-autumn rice during storms

In Quang Tri province, farmers harvested 2,513 hectares out of a total of 38,792 hectares of summer-autumn rice. Many farmers stayed up all night with their harvesters to finish harvesting the ripe rice before the storm hit.

In the early-ripening rice fields, farmers in Ha Tinh are racing to harvest rice to minimize damage caused by storm No. 5.

At the same time, aquaculture households in Hue City, Quang Tri, Ha Tinh and Nghe An have stepped up harvesting shrimp and fish in freshwater and brackish water ponds on coastal lagoons. Areas that cannot be harvested have been reinforced and surrounded to minimize damage.

VAN THANG - NAM SON

Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/bac-mien-trung-tat-bat-thu-hoach-lua-non-chay-bao-post809904.html