date:May 18, 2016
e deltas coastal areas, causing many fruit trees to have their flowers and young fruits falling.
Do Van Tai, director of the Tan Thanh Fruit Co-operative in Cau Ke districts An Phu Tan commune in Tra Vinh province, said that as of early this month, about 80 percent of 1,300ha of fruit orchards in the commune have been affected by saline intrusion.
Ongoing drought and salination have been threatening more than 6,000 ha of green peel and pink flesh grapefruit trees in Ben Tre.
In Ben Tre provin