[Photo] Nurturing green rice seedlings on Trinh Tuong white stone field
In early April, when the first rains of the season fell, people in Trinh Tuong commune, Bat Xat district, began the spring rice planting season. Although the great flood in September 2024 buried the entire Na Lac field into a valley of white rocks, people here are still trying to restore some areas to plant rice, nurturing green hope on the rocky and gravelly fields.
The historic flood in September 2024 buried nearly 56 hectares of rice fields, turning the entire Na Lac valley, Trinh Tuong commune, Bat Xat district into a field of white rocks.
The corn and rice fields in Na Lac village, Pho Moi 2, San Ho were once washed away by floods many times. After being restored, they have now become a rocky valley stretching over 3 km.
Since the beginning of 2025, people in Trinh Tuong commune have been trying to restore some rice fields buried by soil and rocks to plant rice in time for the season.
In late March to early April, when the rice seedlings have turned green, people go to the fields to prepare for the new rice crop.
Mong people in San Ho village, Na Lac help each other to pull up rice seedlings by exchanging labor to speed up the progress.
A Mong woman moves rice seedlings to the field to plant.
In recent years, people in Trinh Tuong commune have been using machines to plow and harrow instead of buffaloes, making farm work less arduous.
Hmong women from Ban Lau village help each other plant rice on a rocky field after a severe flood season. This is a newly renovated field after a major flood in September 2024.
In some terraced fields in higher areas - where they are not swept away by floods - people are also actively planting spring rice.
Ms. Ly Tho Phe, a Ha Nhi ethnic group, in San Ho village, is trying to replant the dead rice plants on her family’s two remaining fields. During the 2024 flood, almost the entire rice field area with a yield of about 3 tons of rice of her family was completely buried and could not be recovered.
While the women were planting rice and chatting to forget their hardships, a little child was sleeping soundly on his mother's back.
After many hard days of flood-hit farmers, the green color of young rice is gradually reviving on the white stone fields in Trinh Tuong commune.
Despite suffering a lot of damage caused by natural disasters, farmers in Trinh Tuong commune still persevere, optimistically cultivating the green color of hope in their fields, with faith in a bright tomorrow.
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