Harvest failure in Jambi due to flooding

More than 1,300 hectares or 25 percent of total agricultural land in Jambi City, have suffered harvest failure due to severe flooding.

Jambi city’s head of agriculture, husbandry, fisheries and forestry, Teguh Wiyono, said on Thursday that the floods had inundated 1,642.35 hectares of agricultural land in Jambi city.

“Twenty-five percent of the total flooded land suffered harvest failure, while the remainder sustained relatively light crop damage,” he said.