Bac Ninh: Urgently harvest flooded rice

BAC NINH - Currently, the water level on the Thuong and Cau rivers has exceeded the historical flood peak, threatening the safety of the dike system and causing widespread flooding in many localities.

On the morning of October 9, the Department of Irrigation Construction and Management ( Ministry of Agriculture and Environment ) requested to temporarily stop the discharge of flood water from reservoirs, sluices, and pumping stations into these two rivers to reduce flood pressure and protect the safety of dikes.

At noon on October 9, the flood level of Thuong River was still high, pumping stations could not operate to drain water from fields to the river.

However, the suspension of pumping stations prevented water from draining from the fields, resulting in thousands of hectares of rice and crops being deeply submerged. Facing the risk of losing the entire crop, localities used loudspeakers to instruct people to quickly dig for ripe rice under the water to harvest and limit damage.

Mr. Nguyen Van Chac, Head of Lang Phuc Man Village, My Thai Commune said: "As soon as we received the notice, we used loudspeakers to advise people whose rice was flooded to harvest it immediately. The weather is hot and the water is flooded for a long time, the rice is easily damaged, we cannot delay."

People in My Thai commune harvest flooded rice in the hope of salvaging whatever they can.

In My Thai, Lang Giang, Tan An ward, Kep commune..., people are racing to save rice. Mrs. Nguyen Thi Thuc, Trai Phuc Man village, My Thai commune, is wading through water up to her waist, pushing a bundle of rice on a plastic barrel cut in half and sighing: "My family has 5 sao, of which 3.5 sao are flooded. This morning, I tried to cut as much rice as I could, otherwise I couldn't find it all. This year's production is so hard, the rain is continuous, the rice is flooded, the roads are flooded too".

According to statistics, the whole province currently has about 8 thousand hectares of rice and crops flooded, concentrated in the communes of Yen The, Bo Ha, Dong Ky, Que Nham, My Thai, Tien Luc... The authorities are coordinating with local authorities to support people to overcome the damage, and at the same time, develop a plan to restore production after the storm passes to compensate for the lost output.

News and photos: Truong Son

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