Local growers report losses of 70-100 per cent of crops with peach and kumquat production hit hard
Flooding in Nhat Tan ward in Hanoi’s Tay Ho district has led to the destruction of local peach and kumquat crops according to reporting by VietNamNet Global.
Several days of heavy rain and flooding of the Red River inundated numerous ornamental gardens in the area, destroying 70-100 per cent of the fruit trees.
Local peach grower, Mr Tinh told VietNamNet Global his family lost 650 peach trees in the floods. Although he has some hope of salvaging some roots.
“Yesterday, the water level was more than one metre deep,” he said. “It will take another three years before we can sell peaches again. We need to replant young peach trees, which will then require another year for grafting.”
Other growers reported losses of up to approximately 3bn VND (US$122,075).
Kumquat grower Tran Thi Tuyet managed to relocate 300 kumquat trees to higher ground but couldn’t salvage the bulk of her crop.
“My family owns about 7acres with roughly 1,000 kumquat trees. The dike was too far away for us to move them in time, resulting in a loss of about 700 trees,” she told VietNamNet Global.
