On November 28, information from the Irrigation Department (Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Dak Lak province) said that the whole province has 212,106 hectares of coffee. During the last dry season, coffee trees were greatly affected by drought.
The reason is due to the influence of the El Nino phenomenon and the impact of climate change, the dry season of 2023-2024 in the province will have little rain and prolonged heat.
According to data from the Standing Office of the Provincial Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention, Control and Search and Rescue, in the 2023-2024 Winter-Spring crop, 18,762.9 hectares of coffee were damaged in the province.
Of which, total damage (over 70%) is 1,044 hectares; severe damage from 30 - 70% is 12,662.6 hectares; partial damage (under 30%) is 5,056.3 hectares.
According to the leader of the Irrigation Department, in the face of the prolonged drought, the agricultural sector and related units have implemented a number of solutions to make full use of water resources, such as raising the overflow threshold of small reservoirs with sandbags at the end of the rainy season to increase the water capacity in the reservoirs.
Store maximum water in ponds, lagoons and other places with conditions to serve irrigation. Mobilize people to do irrigation, clear, dredge and repair, maintain canals to maintain the service quality of the project...
In the long term, the leader of the Irrigation Department said that it is necessary to review the irrigation planning. On that basis, calculate irrigation, balance water, and propose solutions to improve the efficiency of existing irrigation works in terms of capacity and service capacity.
Continue to build new large irrigation works to serve as water storage and regulation in the dry season. Review irrigation planning to suit crop structure arrangement according to agricultural restructuring to respond to climate change...
