Almost 3,000 hectares of rice crop destroyed by flood in Stung Treng

Villagers are moving their belongings to safer ground in Ratanakiri province (Photo: Ratha Visal, RFA)

05 October 2009
By Ratha Visal
Source: Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata for KI-Media
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The Stung Treng provincial authority indicated that almost 3,000 hectares of rice crops are flooded. The flood also affects 3 inhabited villages and communes along main rivers.

Loy Sophat, Stung Treng provincial governor, indicated on Monday 05 October that 95% of the flooded [rice crop fields] were completely destroyed and more than 300 families were evacuated to safety: “The flood is rising fast in the past few days….”

Rising water along the Sesan and Sre Pok rivers flooded numerous villages and communes along the rivers in Ratanakiri province. The flooding started on 28 September 2009, and it is taking place along 3 major rivers in Stung Treng province: the Sekong, Sesan and Mekong rivers. The flooding overcame houses where more 3,000 families are living in.

The Stung Treng authority said the up to 05 October, 81 villages located in 26 communes are flooded. Five districts are affected by flooding in the province of Strung Treng.

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