Ninh Diem Commune in Ninh Hoa District, which is one of places having most production of salt, has lost more than 13,000 tons of salt in its field due to recent floods...
Ninh Diem Commune in Ninh Hoa District, which is one of places having most production of salt, has lost more than 13,000 tons of salt in its field due to recent floods.
Heavy rains during the past days caused salt fields in Hon Khoi, Ninh Diem Commune to a dead loss. According to Nguyen Huu Thuong, deputy director of Hon Khoi Salt for Export Enterprise’s Khanh Hoa Salt Joint Stock Company, 6,400 tons of salt of the enterprise (including 3,000 tons harvested and put on mounds but not stored yet) has been “drowned” in floods. Food preventing force of the enterprise gathered all strength and even mobilized mechanical vehicles to bring the salt to higher places but only 700 tons of salt has been saved.
Hon Khoi Salt for Export Enterprise has nearly 600 hectares of salt in communes of Ninh Diem, Ninh Hai and Ninh Thuy. In previous years, the enterprise still produced salt in rainy seasons, but this year, the flood waters rose too fast and high, broke dikes, overflowed into salt fields and deprived the salt completely. The floods cause damages not only to the this year’s production but to next year’s plan of the enterprise. With a selling price of VND800,000/ton, the enterprise has lost about VND10 billion.
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| Salt workers consolidate dikes for salt fields. |
Similarly, at 1-5 Cooperative in Ninh Diem, 102 hectares of salt were flooded those days. According to Head of the cooperative Truong Cong Hieu, the cooperative produces 6,100 tons a year. This year, being worried about the unfavorable weather, the cooperative had sold 2,000 tons of salt before the floods. However, the rest went to a dead loss. In addition, dikes were ruined seriously. VND300 million is estimated to repair them.
Individual salt workers also suffered severe losses of salt. Half of 1,500 tons of salt on an area of 50 hectares of 30 households in Ninh Diem Commune has lost in the floods, according to Pham Dinh Thoa, vice chairman of Ninh Diem People’s Committee. “Salt working is by its very hard. We went harder when the floods spoliated all our salt”, said a salt worker.
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