VietNamNet Bridge – People in the southwestern region are struggling with flood, which has exceeded the first critical level. However, fishermen are very excited.

Fishermen in the Mekong Delta provinces of Dong Thap and Hau Giang are very happy because floods have come. Fields along National Highway 30 in Dong Thap province are flooded. It is very difficult to know where rice fields and where canals are.

Pointing to the “sea of floods,” elderly farmer Tran Van Kim in Tan Hong district, Dong Thap province, said that it was the rice field a month ago. After rice was harvested, flood water has come, turning the rice fields into a sea. The field is over one meter deep and has become a “fishing ground”.

In An Giang province, farmers are also busy catching fish and other “specialties” like turtles, field-mice, snakes, linh fish, which are “harvested” only when flood water comes.

However, high flood water will prevent farmers from sowing the third rice crop of the year.

According to hydro-meteorologists, riverhead flood in the southwestern region will exceed the second critical level in 5-7 days and the water level may reach 4.1 meters high.

Flooding is very important for the life of people in the southwestern region. The following articles will explain why:

Late flood sways farmers in Vietnam’s southwestern region

Scarcity of fish in Mekong Delta’s flood season

Chinese dams prevent floods in Vietnam’s southwestern region? 

Flood in the southwester region:


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