VietNamNet Bridge – With a rainfall of nearly 300 mm, thousands of hectares of ripen rice fields in Thanh Hoa province in central Vietnam were flooded. Hundreds of soldiers helped local people to save the rice.

On June 26, over 300 soldiers of Division 324 harvested rice for farmers in

Trieu Son lowland district in Thanh Hoa province.

Many soldiers are less than 20 years old, who have just left high schools or live in

cities and had never held a sickle before but in the field, they worked like true farmers.

Without the assistance of soldiers, local farmers would have lost their crop in such deeply flooded fields.

Soldiers harvested, bound and transported rice by tricycles or bicycles.

Mr. Trinh Ngoc Bich, 56, said his family has over 2,100 sq.m of rice field. His children

work far from home. He could not afford to hire harvesters. It will take him and

his wife over ten days to harvest the field but with soldiers’ help, this task was done in over one day.

The fruit of one working day.

In Haima storm, Thanh Hoa province has four people killed by lightening and two fishing boats sunken.

Luckily, ten sailors were rescued. The storm also damaged 40 houses, 1,700m

of river dike, some roads, 165 hectares of fishing ponds and over 9,000 hectares of rice, totaling millions of US dollars.

VNE