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Mekong Delta farmers switch to other crops in response to climate change
More farmers in the Mekong Delta have restructured their crop cultivation to adapt to the effects of climate change.
Late floods, rodent attacks hit Mekong Delta crops
VietNamNet Bridge – The late arrival of floods in the Mekong Delta provinces this year has been blamed on a major attack by rats on crops there.
Goats, new rice promote Delta resilience
Le ThiTrang, 48, a farmer in Ba Tien 1 Village in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta's TienGiang Province, dreams of the day her family has a house without a leaky roof.
Ninh Thuan’s people struggle to survive drought
Land in Ninh Thuan Province is drying up because of heat and a lack of rainfall for the last 300 days.
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Severe drought in the Central Highlands
The Central Highlands in general, Dak Lak province in particular, is facing the toughest drought in years. Ponds and lakes are dried to the bottom; fields are chapped; thousands of hectares of crops are being withered by thirst.
Mineral exploitation devastates poor villages
The mining in Yen Bai province has made thousands of local households live in the fear that one day, their remaining rice fields would be inundated in the mud.
