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Last year’s summer-autumn rice is harvested in
Kien Giang province’s Hon Dat district. Thousands of hectares of rice have been damaged by salinity and diseases in the ongoing rice crop. (Photo: VNA)
Kien
Giang (VNA) - Kien Giang, the country’s largest
rice producer, has
more than 7,140ha of ‘mua’
rice crop damaged by 30-70 percent because of
salinity, according to the province’s Plant Cultivation and Protection
Sub-department.
The
damaged areas are in the districts of An Minh, An Bien and Vinh Thuan.
The ‘mua’ variety
of rice is grown in the rainy season in areas where farming is rainfed. In