Southern Vietnamese farmers suffer from excessive rain
In Dong Nai Province, many kinds of perennial and fruit trees died due to prolonged and heavy rains during the dry season. Productivity has just reached 30 per cent as compared to last year’s crops.
Nguyen Thi Kim Mai, a farmer in Phu Ngoc Commune in Dinh Quan District, said “the mango trees could not be fruit-bearing because the unseasonal rains made fungus attack the flowers”.
Pepper growers have also suffered similar losses, with hundreds of hectares of peppers destroyed and many households pushed to bankruptcy.
Tran Van Hoanh, a pepper grower in Song Ray Commune of Cam My District, said, earlier this year, the unseasonal heavy rains destroyed 70 per cent of the total trees.
“Many working hours of my family members and money lent from banks were washed away”, he said.
source: english.vietnamnet.vn
