As Floodwaters Recede, Farmers Take Stock of Rotten Fields

 VOD, Nov. 3, 2020

Chhieng Bunnat says her 25 hectares of rice were underwater for three weeks. When floodwaters finally began to recede in the past few days, the rice stalks emerged from the water, and she saw that her entire crop was destroyed.

The grains were rotten — black and squishy, the 42-year-old says.

Bunnat, in Battambang province, was at the center of almost monthlong flooding that heavily hit the country’s western provinces.

The latest report released by the National Committee for Disaster Management says 285,000 hectares of rice fields and 97,000 hectares of other crops were flooded in the country, damaging 85,000 and 47,000 hectares of each, respectively.

The report, issued on October 28, also counts 44 deaths due to flooding since September 1.

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