Hanoi peach farmers suffer big losses due to Storm Yagi
Peach farmers in Hanoi's Phu Thuong and Nhat Tan wards have seen their trees, which are being prepared for the coming 2025 Tet Lunar New Year Festival, dying from flooding.
Heavy rains triggered by the Typhoon Yagi together with water release activities from northern upstream hydropower plants had caused the water level on the Red River to have risen to over 11 metres, flooding surrounding areas including Nhat Tan and Phu Thuong.
After over a week being deeply submerged by flood water, many peach gardens in Phu Thuong have now still been covered in thick mud.
According to the Tay Ho District People's Committee, thousands of peach trees have died over an area of 105 hectares in Nhat Tan and Phu Thuong. "Gardens in Phu Thuong have lost up to 90 percent of peach trees while the losses in Nhat Tan gardens which lie on higher terrain have reached 50 percent," the committee said.
A photo of a Phu Thuong peach garden deeply submerged when the flood water on the Red River rose to its highest level of over 11 metres on September 11.
A farmer came to check her trees when the flood water started to recede on September 15. She said that peach trees can't survive flooding of more than two days.
"Those trees won't be able to recover," she said. "We've lost nearly 200 trees in this flood with estimated losses of some VND200 million."
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