Vinh Thanh Commune: Dozens of hectares of rice and fruit trees damaged by floods

An area of 1.6 hectares of durian, jackfruit, and coconut trees of Mr. Huynh Van Hat's family was completely flooded by floodwater.

Mr. Huynh Van Hat (Vinh Thanh commune) said that although he had proactively hired workers to reinforce the dike to protect his family's fruit garden, due to the rapid increase in water level, about a week ago, the dike broke, and the entire 1.6 hectares of his family's fruit garden (durian, jackfruit, coconut) were flooded, causing the entire area to be flooded.

In the 2025 Autumn-Winter rice crop, in Vinh Thanh commune, farmers planted nearly 800 hectares, and have so far harvested nearly 500 hectares. According to commune statistics, rising water levels have damaged dozens of hectares of rice and fruit trees. Specifically, 28.5 hectares of rice were damaged by floodwaters that broke the dike (18.5 hectares were completely lost, 10 hectares were damaged by about 50-60%); 8 hectares of fruit trees were damaged (5.6 hectares were completely lost, 2.3 hectares were damaged by about 40-50%). Estimated damage was about 2 billion VND.

Currently, the remaining rice area is about 300 hectares. Local authorities and people are reinforcing the dike and continuing to monitor this area.

People proactively pump out water to protect rice.

Mr. Nguyen Van Thanh (Vinh Thanh commune) said that his family's 6.5 hectares of rice were planted half a month ago, but the water level is now too high, so people are focusing on reinforcing the dike and have to install pumps 24/7 to drain the water to avoid flooding.

According to Vice Chairman of Vinh Thanh Commune People's Committee Pham Thanh Hung, the commune still has 293 hectares of 2025 Autumn-Winter rice, this part has also reinforced the dike to be about 30cm higher than the outside water level, the flood water level continues to rise, the locality will continue to reinforce to protect this area.

Particularly for fruit tree areas, the locality directed the Economic Department and Agricultural Service Center to continue to propagate and guide people to protect the crop area by many measures, at the same time, regularly check and try to protect the remaining area for people at the flood peak.

Currently, flood water in the province is still rising, so the locality needs to organize forces to be on duty to be ready to handle and respond to possible incidents, reducing damage to people's production./.

Van Dat - Van Sach

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