CLIP: Devastated Vegetable Gardens, Farmers Suffer Billion-Dong Losses After Historic Floods in Lam Dong
Nearly two weeks after the historic flood, many roads leading to the net houses and greenhouses in D’ran Commune (Lam Dong Province) remain in disarray.
Hundreds of hectares of net houses and greenhouses growing vegetables and flowers in Lac Vien Village were swept away by the “great flood” on the night of November 19th and early morning of November 20th.
The metal frames of the greenhouses and net houses were mangled by the flood and piled up, lying in ruins on the ground where once lush vegetable and flower gardens thrived in D’ran Commune. “The flood rose so quickly, it swept everything away. We could only run for our lives,” said farmer Nguyen Thanh Ben from Lac Vien Village.
Nguyen Thi Le Quyen sits exhausted in her high-tech seedling greenhouse. She reports that 500 coconut coir blocks were not moved in time, and all the seedlings died, resulting in a loss of approximately 1 billion VND.
The high-tech seedling greenhouse, once a marvel, now stands crooked and tilted. Inside, what was once rows of lush seedlings is now a massive pile of debris. “Where will we find the money to rebuild? Just the cleanup and repairs will likely take until Tet,” Quyen laments.
Meanwhile, Vu Thanh Minh, Quyen’s husband, scavenges for anything salvageable. Electrical wires and light bulbs, soaked for days and buried under the debris, are now unusable.
According to initial statistics from D’ran Commune, the recent flood affected thousands of hectares of agricultural land, with 460 hectares of vegetable farmland completely destroyed. Numerous greenhouses and net houses, each costing hundreds of millions of VND per hectare, were swept away, and the soil was eroded, requiring replenishment.
Nguyen Thanh Ben’s wife attempts to repair their family’s cart, salvaged from the post-flood debris. She mentions that their 1.7 hectares of water spinach, if not for the flood, would have been harvested by now.
“But now there’s nothing left to sell. In just a few days, we lost nearly 800 million VND,” Ben’s wife says, pointing to the sparse water spinach regrowing after the flood.
The desolate scene inside a thousand-square-meter chrysanthemum greenhouse next to Quyen and Minh’s vegetable garden. The flowers and all their belongings are buried under the chaos.
“The garden owner came by yesterday, saw the mess, and left, too exhausted to even think about cleaning up,” Quyen shares.
Nguyen Trong Huong’s one-hectare eggplant garden near the Da Nhim River has withered after days of flooding. “The eggplants were ready for harvest, and I could sell them every five days for about 50 million VND. Now it’s all gone, and I have no money left to pay my debts,” Huong laments.
Beyond the loss of crops and property, according to the People’s Committee of D’ran Commune, the flood also washed away the fertile topsoil from nearly 150 hectares of gardens. Approximately 300,000 cubic meters of soil are needed to restore the land for farming.
Many areas in D’ran Commune, after the historic flood, have become massive piles of debris, requiring days of cleanup. Local authorities need to provide urgent support to help farmers restore production.
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