Phitsanulok rice farms to absorb 400 million cubic metres of floodwaters
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Farmers in Phitsanulok’s Bang Rakam district have been told to speed up their rice harvests as the local irrigation office will start steering floodwater to their rice field mid next month.
Chamnarn Chuthieng, director of the Yom-Nan Irrigation Project, said 130,000 rai (20,800 hectares) of rice fields have yet to be harvested.
He said officials would start steering water to the fields on August 15 and 400 cubic metres of floodwaters will be kept at the fields until October to lessen the flood impact on lower Chao Phrya basin provinces.
The Royal Irrigation Office reached an agreement with farmers in Bang Rakam to use their fields for water retention after agreeing to provide them with water to grow their rice much earlier than the rainy season.
