Many sweet potato farmers in the Mekong Delta have been fidgeting lately because the vegetable price has dropped dramatically and a few people buy it. The falling prices have left farmers crying.
Agriculture is an important sector of Vietnam especially the Mekong Delta, considered as the 'Rice bowl' of Vietnam; however, climate change and drought have made serious impacts on agriculture in the region.
Recently, due to prolonged heat together with severe impacts of Covid-19 pandemic, betel price has drastically dropped with no traders offering to buy betel. However, dwellers in Vi Thuy village in the Mekong Delta Province of Hau Giang have made every efforts and costs to keep the village’s 50-year tradition of betel growing.
The Saigon Water Corporation (Sawaco) has transported total 3.6 million liters of fresh water to drought-hit communes in Mekong Delta Province of Ben Tre for one month, said Party Chief of Sawaco Vuong Vu.
Electricity consumption in the Mekong delta averagely rises by 10.7 percent during 2010-2018, according to a seminar organized by GreenID Company and the Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations in the Mekong delta City of Can Tho yesterday.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Vietnam Vaccine Corporation (VNVC) yesterday opened VNVC Can Tho Vaccination Center at 576 in 30/4 Street in Ninh Kieu District in the Mekong delta city of Can Tho.
Breeders in the Mekong Delta have suffered heavy losses from massive shrimp die-offs due to white spot disease while scientists are finding treatment to help farmers to minimize the loss.
The Prime Minister has agreed in principle the organisation of the forum on sustainable and climate-resilient development of the Mekong Delta in October 2019.
