Floods triggered by incessant rains over the past three weeks, have submerged a total of 879.41 hectares of rice fields in Jambi Province, ANTARA reported. The floods also caused 116 hectares of rice fields failed to harvest, Amrin Aziz, head of the Jambi provincial facility and infrastructure section, said here on Saturday. Maize and peanut fields respectively measuring 10 hectares were also flooded, and five hectares of them were spoiled. The Jambi authorities would provide seedlings and 54,000 tons of subsidized fertilizers to help farmers whose fields being hit by the floods, he said. The floods affected 24 hectares of rice fields in Bathin, 10 hectares in Batanghari District, 233 hectares in Muarojambi District, 1.35 hectare in Bungo District, 213 hectares in Tebo District, 214 hectares in Merangin District, 27.25 hectares in Sarolangun District, and 292 hectares in Kerinci. The floods have also inundated thousands of houses and forced a number of residents to evacuate themselves to safer areas. Indonesia is now in rainy season which has triggered floods in several areas, including in the capital city of Jakarta.