Nghe An rice transplanters 'in high demand' on hot days
It is hot and sunny, so working in the fields is quite hard. Even though the daily wage is nearly half a million VND, many farming households still cannot hire people to do the planting.
Báo Nghệ An•17/06/2025
These days, localities in the province are entering the summer-autumn rice planting season. In Thanh Chuong district, farmers in many localities have simultaneously gone to the fields to plant rice. The planting season takes place in the middle of hot sunny days, farmers face many difficulties, having to avoid the sun and quickly plant rice to avoid drying out the fields, while it is difficult to find rice planters. Photo: Huy Thu During the planting season, women in the localities who do not produce summer-autumn crops or have finished sowing rice take advantage of the opportunity to plant rice to earn extra income. They invite each other to go in groups, each group of 3-5 people. Planting rice for hire is quite fun, in some hamlets, dozens of women in the hamlet work as planters. Photo: Huy Thu Nowadays, transplanters are quite versatile. If the homeowner has not prepared the seedlings, they can still pull out the seedlings and transplant them at the same time. Many transplanters also do the farming, fertilizing the rice before transplanting or spraying weed killer, snail killer... Photo: Huy Thu A woman in My Son commune, Do Luong district, who is planting rice for Mr. Tran Dinh Manh's family in Dong Van commune, Thanh Chuong district, said that her group of 5 people is working as a hired laborer in Dong Van commune, and today is the 3rd day. Because the planting is far away, everyone has to wake up, eat, and prepare to leave from 5 a.m., and the group has lunch at whichever house they plant for. The labor fee has been agreed upon by both parties. Photo: Huy Thu In the middle of hot days, planters are often equipped with quite complete protective gear, from hats, caps, boots, heat-resistant jackets... Photo: Huy Thu According to the women who work as rice transplanters, to be hired as rice transplanters, one must be healthy enough to wade through the fields, plant quickly, be enthusiastic, and meet the requirements and expectations of the rice transplanting methods and techniques of the rice transplanting owners, such as dense planting, sparse planting, mass planting, planting in strips... Photo: Huy Thu In the fields where the summer-autumn rice planting season is currently taking place in Thanh Chuong district, one can see local planters and many groups of planters coming from Do Luong, Nam Dan districts... Although planters from all over the country are coming, the localities organize the planting at the same time, with every household going to the fields, so it is still difficult to find people to plant. Photo: Huy Thu A rice planter in Kim Bang commune who is working as a hired transplanter in Xuan Duong commune said. People who have fields that need to be transplanted often find transplanters through acquaintances, through social networks, or directly pick up transplanters at the market, on the roads... Due to the lack of workers, many groups of rice planters this season have been booked by farmers many days in advance. Photo: Huy Thu A woman in Truong Linh hamlet, Xuan Duong commune, Thanh Chuong district said that her family has 9 sao of rice fields, and has finished sowing this crop, so she took the opportunity to plant rice for the villagers to earn wages. Many women in the hamlet also work as hired laborers like her. Photo: Huy Thu According to the planters, working as hired laborers on hot days is quite hard, the weather is sunny, the fields are muddy... On peak sunny days, one must go to work early to rest early. In the afternoon, one can work late and rest late to ensure good health for long-term work as hired laborers. Photo: Huy Thu The wages of rice transplanters in Thanh Chuong district, excluding lunch, range from 350,000 - 400,000 VND/day. Although wading through the rice fields to plant rice is hard and tiring, the hardworking and diligent women still earn some money to spend and cover expenses. Photo: Huy Thu Planters in season. Video : Huy Thu
Báo Nghệ An•17/06/2025
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