Water environment monitoring results from November 26 – 28, 2024, at some estuaries and key culverts in Cau Ngang, Duyen Hai districts and Duyen Hai town, water salinity measured from 5 – 7‰. Specifically, at Kenh Dao Bridge, Long Vinh commune, Duyen Hai district, salinity measured 5 ‰; At Song Giang Bridge, Hiep Thanh commune, Duyen Hai town, the salinity measured 6‰; At Cong Thau Rau, My Long Nam commune, Cau Ngang district, the water salinity is 7‰.

Along with that, the weather in Tra Vinh province from the beginning of November until now has been rainless and hot on a large scale, and saltwater intrusion is forecast to appear soon.

According to Mr. Le Quang Rang, Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Tra Vinh province, the situation of drought and saltwater intrusion in the Mekong Delta in recent years has always been severe and always at a high level. Tra Vinh is a province forecast to be heavily affected by the impacts of climate change in terms of drought and saltwater intrusion, peaking from December of the previous year and lasting until around April of the following year.

Therefore, to proactively respond to adverse weather, the province’s agricultural sector requires localities to conduct field surveys, proactively plan to prevent salinity, and store fresh water sources to ensure service for the production season.

Currently, localities in the province have completed irrigation work by 2024, with 412 new excavation works, dredging a total length of more than 321 km of irrigation ditches; Repair 12 embankment structures, 5.6 km long. Although irrigation work has been completed, localities need to proactively review and concentrate forces on removing obstacles and water hyacinths on irrigation canals to clear the flow and store deep fresh water.

For the Irrigation Works Management and Operation One-Member LLC, re-survey the system of 150 source generating canals, level I canals and more than 1,059 level II canal routes to build a plan and operate in accordance with the “closed, closed” scenario. Open the main sluices, take in water when the salinity is below 1‰ to store water and close the sluices when the salinity is 1‰ or more to ensure prevention of saltwater intrusion and enough fresh water source in the field to regulate the water source for service. for production export.

Currently, the area of ​​Autumn-Winter and Seasonal rice in the province is about 72,000 hectares; Of which, the Autumn-Winter rice area of ​​about more than 60,000 hectares is in the tillering and tillering stages and needs to be cared for and protected.

Therefore, the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development requires affiliated units to deploy aspects of drought and saline response work; Strengthen coordination with localities to propagate and mobilize people to proactively reinforce embankments and field edges to ensure accumulation of water sources in the fields for rice crops and water sources for irrigation of crops and fruit gardens.