In Mekong Delta, Rice Boom Has Steep Environmental Cost

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Large pile of rice, which will probably be bagged up and shipped out at the plant behind, Mekong Delta, Vietnam. Captions and Photo source: ©© Jody McIntyre

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Vietnam has become one of the world’s leading rice producers, thanks to the construction of an elaborate network of dikes and irrigation canals. But these extensive infrastructure projects across the Mekong Delta and along the country’s South China Sea coastline, has disrupted the river delta’s complex ecological systems.

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