Rice cutting costs increased due to heavy rain and fallen rice.

Many farmers who are harvesting rice said that for fields with fallen rice, the price for cutting is 400,000 VND/cong, and for fields with standing rice, the price is 350,000 VND/cong, an increase of 50,000 VND/cong compared to the time before storm No. 3.

Many rice fields were knocked down due to rain and thunderstorms.

In addition to the high cost of cutting, the yield in the fields with fallen rice is only 500-600kg/cong, about 100kg/cong lower than the fields with unfallen rice. The reason for the reduction is that during the harvesting process, the cutting machine cannot harvest all the fallen rice and can only cut the upper part.

In addition to the decrease in productivity and quality of rice, the high cutting cost, the purchase price of fresh rice in recent days has also decreased by an average of 100-200 VND/kg compared to the price that farmers received as a deposit from rice brokers or traders before. Currently, for the Dai Thom 8 rice variety, traders buy fresh rice in the field at a price of 8,000-8,100 VND/kg.

Farmers have to rent rice cutting machines at high prices.

Currently, farmers in Hau Giang province have harvested nearly 72,000 hectares out of a total of nearly 74,200 hectares of Summer-Autumn rice that have been planted, with an estimated average yield of nearly 6.2 tons/hectare. Currently, the unharvested Summer-Autumn rice area is concentrated in Long My district. Farmers here are taking advantage of the favorable weather to speed up the rice cutting process to reduce yield losses, especially in fallen rice fields.

Source: https://vov.vn/kinh-te/gia-cong-cat-lua-tang-cao-do-mua-dam-lua-do-nga-post1121969.vov