Agricultural Drought in Vietnam - Monitoring and Predicting Agricultural Drought: A Global Study - page 346

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Figure 27.1 Agricultural regions of Vietnam.

G eneral Characteristics of Regions
The north mountain and midland region is not prone to droughts. Only
moderate droughts occur at some places in this region. Droughts rarely
occur for consecutive years, except the droughts that occurred during the
summer season of 1988 and 1989. The northeast part of this region is
more prone to drought than the rest of the region. The Red River delta is
relatively more drought prone, and severe droughts occurred there in 1960,
1961, 1963, and 1964.
The north-central region is a narrow belt of land by the East Sea and is
covered with many forests and mountains. The geographical area of this
region is about 5.1 millions ha, with nearly 1.3 millions ha being used for