HANOI: It's 3am (4am, Singapore time) and pitch black when rice farmer Tran Thi Lan heads into water-logged fields on the outskirts of Hanoi to begin planting, desperate to finish before the day's brutal heat arrives. Planting in the dark has become a saviour for countless farmers in north and central Viet
HANOI: It's 3am and pitch black when rice farmer Tran Thi Lan heads into water-logged fields on the outskirts of Hanoi to begin planting, desperate to finish before the day's brutal heat arrives.
"It's so hard to plant the rice when the strong sun is directly on my back and the warm water in the field splashes my face," Lan, 47, told AFP.But she switched to night work as another heatwave descended on northern Vietnam in early July, with forecasters predicting a long stretch where daily temperatures would exceed 37 degrees Celsius.
Like Lan, 62-year-old farmer Nguyen Hung Phuong will now work from 4pm to 9pm and again from 3am to 9am. "It's in fact much better because the water is cooler, and more suitable for the young plant," Hanh said.
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