date:Sep 26, 2013
that continuous heavy rains have sent several farmers into despair as the cost for harvesting by hand was two times higher than that for harvesting by harvesters. Meanwhile, paddy price plummeted steeply as wet and muddy paddy is out of favor with traders. Under such circumstances, farmers will suffer huge losses.
The Department of Cultivation under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on September 24 said that farmers in the Mekong Delta provinces have so far grown autumn-winter