Kien Giang: Rice fields destroyed by miceHundreds of hectares of rice have been destroyed by mice, with as much as 90 per cent damaged in some fields, in Kien Giang Province’s Giang Thanh District. Farmers in Giang Thanh District try to chase mice from a rice field by beating two pot lids together. Her losses totalled VNĐ30 million (US$1,300), which included costs of rice seeds, fertilisers and pesticides for growing the summer-autumn rice crop. Farmers in Giang Thanh District have grown 15,800 ha of early summer-autumn rice and 20,970ha of the summer-autumn rice, according to the district’s Plant Cultivation and Protection Station. Nguyen Van Dam in Vinh Dieu Commune said mice had destroyed half of his 6-ha rice fields, resulting in a very low yield.

Source: VietNamNet News July 16, 2016 04:07 UTC