In Southeast Aceh farmers failed to harvest

BANDA ACEH - Farmers in Southeast Aceh Regency hundreds of crop failure due to their farms hit by flash floods on Thursday (12/4).

Head of Finance Sub Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) Southeast Aceh Regency Revelations Hidayatullah was contacted in Banda Aceh, said the flash floods that hit Bambel Sub-District and Pine Hill resulted in approximately 172 hectares of farmland damaged and result in crop failure.

"Agricultural land owned by people who are ready to harvest it was damaged by flash floods that hit the district in East Aceh," he said.

  He cited the failure of agricultural crops are harvested each 40 hectares of maize, 75 hectares of rice fields and 57 hectares of cocoa plantations.

  Damage to agricultural land in the three most numerous village or villages in Pine Hill District. Previously, flash floods that hit eight gampong in two districts in the Southeast Aceh resulted in hundreds of residents to flee to safer places.

  He said it was Rikit gampong Bur, Harmony, and Sebudidaya, Pine Hill District and Village Peace Love, Yellow Two, Yellow One, and the Green Lawe, Bambel Sub-District.

  In addition to crop failures, he said, resulting in flash floods also include 14 houses belonging to residents in the District of Pine Hill brought the flood is gone. Wahyudi added, there is also damage to public facilities such as a school unit, a house of worship, four bridges, state roads, and irrigation of about 2.7 kilometers.

   "Estimisasi losses due to floods in Southeast Aceh around Rp12, 6 billion," he said.

  He said that data loss is the result delivered by each subdistrict in areas affected by flash floods.