Flooded fields, remembering the buffalo wool season
Báo điện tử VOV•28/09/2024
VOV.VN - When mentioning the buffalo herding season in the Mekong Delta, everyone clearly remembers herds of hundreds of buffalo crossing the fields to find food during the flood season. That scene only occurs during the 3 to 4 months of the flood season.
In late September, in many fields in the upstream areas of An Giang and Dong Thap, water overflowed the banks, water from the upper Mekong River poured in, carrying alluvium, shrimp, fish and many other products of the flood season.
In the Mekong Delta, the flood season starts from the 7th to the 11th lunar month. In addition to fishing and aquaculture, this is also the time when people herd buffaloes across the fields in search of food.
When mentioning the buffalo herding season in the Mekong Delta, everyone clearly remembers herds of hundreds of buffalo crossing the fields to find food during the flood season. That scene only occurs during the 3 to 4 months of the flood season.
Water from the upper Mekong River flows down, carrying alluvium, shrimp, fish and many other products of the flood season. This is also the time when people herd buffaloes across the fields in search of food.
Herds of buffalo cross the fields in search of food.
During a recent business trip to the border district of Hong Ngu, Dong Thap province, we saw herds of buffalo being herded into the fields to forage.
Buffalo wool season creates interesting scenery, especially in the Mekong Delta.
Buffalo wool season is also a bustling season in some rural areas of the West.
Many families raise buffaloes and gather them into large herds and hand them over to young men to raise during the flood season.
During a recent business trip to the border district of Hong Ngu, Dong Thap province, we saw herds of buffalo being herded into the fields to forage. That scene created an interesting landscape, especially in the Mekong Delta.
During the 3 to 4 months of the flood season, buffalo herders have to wake up early to herd their buffaloes out to the fields and when the sun sets, they start herding their buffaloes back home. The work is repeated over and over until the end of the flood season.
The buffalo herders have to get up early to herd the buffaloes to the fields.
The number of buffaloes today is not as large as before.
During the 3 to 4 months the buffalo herds roam the fields in search of food.
In recent years, the number of buffaloes is not much.
The beauty of buffalo herding season in the upstream region
When the flood water overflows the fields, everyone remembers the buffalo herding season in the border region.
Buffaloes are herded out to the fields from early morning until late afternoon when they are herded back home by people.
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