LONG AN, Vietnam (AP) — There is one thing that distinguishes 60-year-old Vo Van Van’s rice fields from a mosaic of thousands of other emerald fields across ...
LONG AN, Vietnam — There is one thing that distinguishes 60-year-old Vo Van Van ’s rice fields from a mosaic of thousands of other emerald fields across Long An province in southern Vietnam ’s Mekong Delta : It isn’t entirely flooded.
Vietnam is the world's third-largest rice exporter, and the staple importance to Vietnamese culture is palpable in the Mekong Delta. The fertile patchwork of green fields crisscrossed by silvery waterways has helped stave off famine since the Vietnam War ended in 1975. Rice isn't just theIt is molded into noodles and sheets and fermented into wine. In busy markets, motorcyclists lug 10-kilogram bags to their homes. Barges haul mountains of the grain up and down the Mekong River.
That's a long way from Vietnam’s own target of growing “high quality, low emission rice” on 1 million hectares of farmland, an area more than six times the size of London, by 2030. Vietnamese officials estimate that would reduce production costs by a fifth and increase farmers' profits by more than $600 million, according to the state media outlet Vietnam News.
Changing centuries-old forms of rice farming is expensive, and even though methane is a more potent cause of global warming than carbon dioxide, it only receives 2% of climate financing, Ajay Banga, the World Bank's president, told the Growing more genetically diverse rice varieties would also help because some are more resilient to excess heat or require less water, while others might even emit less methane, he said.
In Singapore, a new plant will turn CO2 from seawater and air into the same material as seashells, in a process that will also produce “green” hydrogenPrepare for multiple rounds of April snowfall this week, as Labrador braces for wintry conditions.
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