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Rice fields in Hamlet 12B are being harvested in deep water, causing losses during the rice cutting process.

In recent days, due to heavy rain, the summer-autumn rice crop in Sub-region III - North Ca Mau has encountered difficulties in harvesting. For example, in Rach Cui area, Hamlet 5, Khanh Binh commune, many households have ripe rice but it is deeply flooded and cannot be harvested. Mr. Huynh Van Luy's family (Hamlet 5) has 27 hectares of rice fields, this crop he worked 13 hectares, had to sow twice, when the rice was ripe, it rained heavily, the rice was flooded to the top, the family had a cutting machine but could not harvest, had to abandon it. This rice crop is considered a total loss for the family.

Many rice fields were flooded and collapsed due to heavy rain.

The rice was ripe but due to the deep flood, the machine could not cut it, so Mr. Huynh Van Luy's wife collected the flooded rice to dry and use as food for the ducks.

Hamlet 12B has more hilly land, but the water cannot be pumped out, making it difficult to harvest. Mr. Thai Van Duom has 20 hectares of rice fields that have just been harvested but cannot sell the rice because traders do not buy and prices are unstable. He is determined to dry the rice and store it until prices go up.

Mr. Thai Van Duom's pump had to stop pumping to save the rice because, according to Mr. Duom, due to too much rain, the more he pumped, the more he lost.

Not only in Khanh Binh commune, but also in neighboring areas such as Khanh Hung, Da Bac... most farmers take advantage of the sunny weather to cut rice. In Mrs. Dang Thi Ngot's field, the rice is still green but she has to hire a cutting machine, because she is afraid that if she waits any longer, it will be flooded.

Natural disasters, combined with unstable prices, have caused farmers to lose a lot of money in the summer-autumn rice harvest. Hopefully, the government will have policies to support farmers in terms of output, and that local authorities, cooperatives, and businesses will have appropriate production and consumption plans to help farmers stabilize production for the next winter-spring crop.

Although the rice is still green, farmers in Khanh Hung commune have taken advantage of the harvest to avoid flooding.