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| Prices of fresh rice in fields in many provinces in the Mekong Delta have peaked, the highest in the past 3 years. |
Pleasure is seasonal, winning prices
In recent days, farmers in the Mekong Delta are entering the harvest of winter-spring rice crop. Normally, when winter-spring rice crop is harvested, the market price of rice will be low. The reason is that at that time the amount of commodity rice on the market was plentiful.
This year, traders not only actively come to the field to make deposits early but also buy at a high price of VND 6,800 / kg for RVT rice. Compared to the end of February, all rice varieties increased from 300 – 400 VND / kg, compared to the same period in 2019, the price of rice increased sharply from 500 – 1,000 VND / kg. The more recent the harvest, the higher the price of rice.
Recent active rice export activities have helped the purchasing price of fresh rice to peak, the highest in the last 3 years. At this price, the rice farmer will have a good income.
Currently, the Mekong Delta has harvested more than 65% of more than 1.5 million hectares of winter-spring rice. Because this is the time to prepare the delivery of signed contracts, the rice and rice market will be more active.
It can be said that, in order to have such a successful result as there is a synchronous combination from the people following the recommendation of focusing on early seeding, helping to avoid the salty drought, many well-developed rice tea, high productivity, bringing high quality rice varieties into production, closely linking with enterprises from production to consumption, from which people have a bumper crop.
Fighting against salt and drought
Currently, 5/13 provinces in the Mekong Delta have declared salinity emergency. In Ben Tre, salt water has covered the province. According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development this year, the damage is lower than in 2016, but the salinity intensity is much more severe.
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| Many solutions implemented by Mekong Delta provinces provide water for people. |
From 7 to 15/3, the 4 per thousand saline boundary intruded 100-110 km deep on the Vam Co river; 60 km on Cua Tieu and Cua Dai rivers. Meanwhile, Ham Luong river is 78 km; 70 km on Co Chien and Hau rivers; 62-65 km at Cai Lon river. The remaining rivers are higher than 3-8 km.
Currently, saline intrusion causes damage of nearly 39,000 ha of rice production area with about 20,000 ha of lost rice; 80,000 hectares of fruit trees and about 97,700 households are facing difficulties in running water. The system of rivers and streams dried up, many traffic works were seriously subsided.
The whole area has about 95,600 households lacking clean water for daily life, of which, in Ben Tre alone, there are 20,000 households. Facing the difficult situation of water sources, many units and sponsors urgently 'supported' thousands of blocks of water to serve the people.
On March 16, the leader of Binh Duong Water – Environment Joint Stock Company deployed fresh – clean water activities for people in Ben Tre. The unit provided free support to the people of Ben Tre City and the districts of Mo Cay Nam, Chau Thanh and Giong Trom with a total of 6,000m³ of water.
This is fresh, clean water that has been treated by the company, can be used for eating and drinking. Estimated support funding (including hire barges to transport) over 500 million. Previously, on March 15, at the foot of Vam Mon bridge, Phu Son commune, Haithuong 129 (Saigon Port Force, Navy Armed Forces) brought transport ships to supply fresh water to help people in Cho Lach district overcome the situation. lack of fresh water due to saline intrusion. On this occasion, the Regiment 129 provided over 1,000m³ of fresh water to people in communes and towns in Cho Lach district.
In Tien Giang, in order to reduce damage to durian orchards, the People's Committee of Tien Giang province has advocated using barges with large tonnage to carry water from the source to provide free water for gardeners to spray water.
Every day, Rach Gam Transport Cooperative (My Tho City) mobilizes over 20 barges carrying over 20,000m³ of fresh water to supply to riparian communes of Chau Thanh and Cai Lay districts. This water is pumped into ponds and ditches, then the local authorities allocate to growers planting durian trees. Each hectare of garden houses is provided with free 20m³ of fresh water. The support period lasts until April 2020, with a total irrigation water demand of nearly 1.38 million m3.
Apart from the provincial support plan, people also actively buy water to irrigate over 36,000 hectares of fruit gardens south of National Highway 1, which are lacking water in Cai Be, Cai Lay, Chau Thanh and Cai towns. Well, the immediate 'rescue' for more than 13,000ha durian is short of water, especially the number is depleted.
Facing the severe drought situation in the Mekong Delta, responding to the call of Disaster Mitigation Partnership (MARD), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) opened a global emergency fund. support people in the Mekong Delta to cope with salty drought.
UNDP has collaborated with the General Department of Disaster Prevention to set up quick assessment teams on saline drought, providing information for other members of the Partnership to support.
On March 17, UNDP officially awarded people in the Mekong Delta through MARD a support package of US $ 185,000 from the global emergency fund to support the response to drought and saltwater intrusion in the Mekong Delta.
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| Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Hoang Hiep – Chairman of Disaster Risk Reduction Partner received support from the United Nations Development Program. |
UNDP activities include: Providing 300 water tanks for affected households in Ben Tre and supporting livelihoods for 176 households in Ca Mau. Assessing the impact of drought on livelihoods, access to fresh water, land subsidence. Supporting policy dialogue in preventing salinity and natural disasters. Application of mobile technologies to update damage caused by natural disasters, including salinity drought.
According to the Southern Institute of Water Resources Research, the salinity level will decrease from March 15 to April 6; the distance from the sea from 35 to 40 km in the Cuu Long estuary is likely to have fresh water at low tide. Therefore, it is recommended that localities should increase monitoring and maximize the means to get fresh water during this time.
However, on the Ham Luong River, Tieu and Dai estuaries are still quite high.
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