Large areas were completely destroyed.
Hoping for a bountiful rice harvest, but despite being luckier than those families who lost everything this summer-autumn season, Mr. Nguyen Xuan Luoc in Mau 2 hamlet, Kim Lien commune, still couldn't feel happy.
“After all the hard work of tending the rice, it rained when it was about to flower, and then it rained again for 5 days before the water receded. The rice grains are shriveled and empty; there are ears of rice but no grains. While in previous years the yield was over 300 kg, this year we only managed to salvage a little over 100 kg per sao (a unit of land measurement), a yield halved compared to previous seasons. The price of rice is also only half, traders are buying fresh rice at 4,600 VND/kg, resulting in losses in every way,” Mr. Nguyen Xuan Luoc shared.
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In Kim Lien commune, out of 2,237 hectares of rice fields, 1,800 hectares were completely unharvestable due to the impact of consecutive storms No. 5 and No. 6.
Mr. Tran Manh Hong from the Economic Department of the commune said: Currently, farmers are focusing on harvesting the remaining nearly 500 hectares of rice. However, on this area, although not a complete crop failure, the rice yield has decreased by one-third to one-half compared to previous years.
Before the effects of Typhoon No. 5 had even subsided, another wave of heavy rains came from Typhoon No. 6. The continuous natural disasters, causing flooding for over ten days, resulted in the complete loss of 1,800 out of 2,337 hectares of summer-autumn rice crops in Kim Lien commune.
Mr. Tran Manh Hong - Economic Department of Kim Lien Commune
As one of the province's key rice-growing areas, Quang Chau commune has seen a record low rice yield this summer-autumn season. Heavy rains have flattened over 700 out of 864 hectares of rice before it had fully ripened. According to Ms. Nguyen Thi Tinh from the commune's Economic Department, although official statistics are not yet available, approximately 60 hectares of rice are completely unharvestable; the remaining flattened rice fields only yield 80-100 kg per sao (a unit of land measurement).
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Rice purchase prices have dropped sharply.
While not as severely damaged as in Kim Lien and Quang Chau communes, rice yields have also decreased sharply in many other localities of the province this year.
Mrs. Nguyen Thi Minh's family owns 10 sao (approximately 10,000 square meters) of rice fields in the 37th rice paddy area of Thuan Trung commune. This year's summer-autumn rice crop yielded only 2 quintals of rice per sao, 1-1.5 quintals less than in previous years. Mrs. Minh said that the rice plants bloomed a few days before it rained, and the rice fields were also damaged by leaf-rolling insects.
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Similarly, in almost all communes in the former Do Luong district, rice yields were lower than in previous years.
Mr. Le Anh Son, Head of the Do Luong Agricultural Service Station, said: There are two main factors affecting the reduction of rice yield and quality. Firstly, the fifth and sixth generations of small leaf-rolling caterpillars, which were not properly controlled by some farmers during the grain-forming stage, caused empty or partially filled grains in the summer-autumn rice crop in Van Hien and Bach Ha communes… Secondly, both rice crops in the area were severely affected by storms and heavy rain during the flowering period.
To date, Nghe An province has harvested more than 26,000 hectares of summer-autumn rice, concentrated in the communes of Yen Thanh, Quan Thanh, Quang Chau, Dien Chau, Van Hien, etc.
According to initial assessments, this year's summer-autumn rice yield is very low compared to previous years, due to the impact of typhoons No. 3, No. 5, and No. 6, which caused flooding and reduced yields in many rice-growing areas, with some areas experiencing complete crop failure.
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Not only did farmers lose productivity, but they also suffered heavy losses because poor-quality rice was bought by traders directly from the fields at prices only slightly more than half of last year's, ranging from 4,600 to 5,200 VND/kg.
"This year, due to the prolonged spring crop production, the summer-autumn rice harvest is later than usual. It is expected that the entire province will complete the harvest by the end of September," said Mr. Nguyen Tien Duc, Head of the Provincial Department of Crop Production and Plant Protection.
Source: https://baonghean.vn/nghe-an-nhieu-dien-tich-lua-he-thu-mat-mua-gia-giam-manh-10306361.html
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