Over the past few days, thunderstorms have occurred in several provinces and cities in the Mekong Delta, causing rice crops in some areas to fall over.
In Tien Giang province, the impact of prolonged heavy rains has caused many rice fields of farmers to collapse. Faced with these disadvantages, farmers are actively taking advantage of the situation to bundle up rice.
Mr. Tran Cong Trai (residing in Go Cong Tay district, Tien Giang province) said that in the past few days, there has been continuous rain and thunderstorms. As a result, the rice fields of farmers in Go Cong Tay district have collapsed. To save the situation, farmers whose rice fields have collapsed have had to drain the water from the bottom of the fields and bundle the rice into clumps.
According to Mr. Soi, the most feared rice farmer is rice falling, if not forced to stand up like that, the rice cotton is flooded with water and will be damaged and sold.
Mr. Vo Van Chuc (residing in Thanh Nhut commune, Go Cong Tay district, Tien Giang province) said that he has an area of 2,000 m2 of rice. At present, the rice is more than 90 days old, and is about to be harvested, but in recent days, heavy rain combined with thunderstorms has caused the rice to fall.
“The area of fallen rice accounts for 50%. After draining the water from the field, the whole family went to the field to tie the rice into clumps so that the rice grains could dry out,” said Mr. Chuc.
Mr. Chuc said that his family's rice field was almost ready for harvest, so he was very worried. Seeing the rice fall over, he and his family quickly tied it up and stood it up, hoping to save it.
According to the report of Tien Giang Provincial People's Committee, the whole province has a rice planting area of 107,769 hectares, harvested 64,863 hectares, with an output of 436,022 tons, down 9.6% compared to the same period, with a yield of 67.2 quintals/hectare.
According to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, last night until this morning (September 21), in the North Central region there was moderate rain, heavy rain and thunderstorms, locally very heavy rain; in the North, Central and South Central regions, the Central Highlands and the South there were scattered showers and thunderstorms, locally heavy rain. The rainfall from 7pm on September 20 to 8am on September 21 was over 90mm in some places such as: Khe La (Nghe An) 195.2mm, Chau Ly (Nghe An) 111.8mm, Ho Cu Lay (Ha Tinh) 92.6mm...
Heavy rain is forecast for the next 24 to 48 hours. In the afternoon and evening of September 21, in the South Central, Central Highlands and Southern regions, there will be scattered showers and thunderstorms, with some places experiencing heavy rain with rainfall of 10-30mm, and some places over 50mm. During thunderstorms, there is a possibility of tornadoes, lightning and strong gusts of wind.
