CAN THO, March 26 — As a child, Dong Van Canh watched while the rice fields of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta were set alight to make way for the next crop, blackening the sky and...
CAN THO, March 26 — As a child, Dong Van Canh watched while the rice fields of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta were set alight to make way for the next crop, blackening the sky and flooding the air with potent greenhouse gases.
Motivated by the memory of being forced inside his home on days the smoke was thick — sometimes so acrid it made him choke or faint — he joined an initiative that removes straw from the fields and turns it into mushrooms and organic fertiliser, earning a small income on the side. Several of the world’s biggest rice producers, including Indonesia, Bangladesh and Vietnam, are on board — although the two largest, China and India, failed to sign.
“In the past a few farmers did this manually but it took too much manpower and the cost was high. Now we’ve cut costs by half and we will expand to meet the demands of the market,” said Le Dinh Du, a rice farmer who also heads the local district’s plant protection department.Vietnam’s environment ministry says irrigated rice accounted for almost half of methane emissions in 2019.
As well as straw management, IRRI says another scheme called Alternate Wetting and Drying , which involves breaking up standing water to replenish oxygen and reduce methane-producing bacteria, could also help cut emissions.
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