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March 30, 2015

Vietnam rice boom heaping pressure on farmers, environment
Can Tho, Vietnam (AFP) March 29, 2015
Rice farmer Nguyen Hien Thien is so busy growing his crops that he has never even visited Can Tho, a town only a few miles from his farm in the southern Mekong Delta. "When I was a child, we grew one crop of rice per year - now it's three. It's a lot of work," 60-year-old Thien, who has been farming since he was a child, told AFP on the edge of his small paddy field. Experts say Vietnam's drive to become one of the world's leading rice exporters is pushing farmers in the fertile delta region to ... read more

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