2010-07-15
HANOI (Commodity Online) : World’s largest rice exporter, Vietnam’s Mekong Delta which accounts for more than half of its output is hit by drastic climate changes, resulting huge losses of crops.
Drought caused by a hot spell over the past month has hurt rice fields in the region with nearly 100,000 hectares destroyed or partly destroyed.
A total of 25,000 hectares of rice was ruined and yields on another 70,000 hectares will drop sharply, the report said, giving no forecast for output losses.
The country saw a bumper harvest of the highest-yielding winter-spring rice crop, with output of unmilled rice rising 2.6 percent from last year to 19.2 million tones.
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