Tens of thousands of hectares of rice and crops in provinces in central Vietnam are in need of water now.
Mr. Huynh Van Thang, deputy director of the Da nang Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, said that around 6,000 hectares of crops are threatened by drought.
In Thua Thien – Hue province, half of the rice area lacks water.
In Phu Yen province, Dong Cam, the largest irrigation work in the province, which supplies water for 15,000 hectares of rice, is seriously dry.
At present, thousands of households in the downstream regions of Thu Bon, Vu Gia rivers in Quang Nam and Ba