With a view to concretizing the sector’s growth in the remainder of 2024 and the whole 2025, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh ordered drastic and effective implementation of support measures for local residents and business establishments that were hard hit by the typhoon and its subsequent floods.
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development was asked to enhance direction on the arrangement of working delegations, including experts and agricultural extension staff, to the typhoon-hit households and production facilities, guiding them how to bounce back their production.
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Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has urged competent ministries and localities to promote post-Typhoon Yagi agricultural production recovery. |
Along with organizing environmental monitoring in aquaculture areas to give timely advice to farmers, the ministry must provide them with guidance on selecting suitable aquatic species while strengthening cooperation and connectivity between localities, production facilities, and suppliers of seedlings, food, environmental treatment products, equipment and agricultural inputs and those suffer damage from the typhoon to help them in their disaster relief efforts.
The minister was also requested to direct competent departments to coordinate with the customs force and relevant sides to facilitate the import of necessary materials for production in case of insufficient domestic supply while handling damaged forests and harvesting timber from the areas in line with regulations. Furthermore, it is a must to ensure that seedlings, fertilizers and workforce are ready to restore the forests when weather conditions permit.
The chairpersons of the People’s Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities bearing the brunt of the typhoon, particularly, Quang Ninh and Hai Phong, need to bring into full play production recovery measures, provide farmers with financial support, keep a close watch on market developments, and join hands with competent agencies to implement price control solutions to prevent speculation, hoarding and market manipulation.
Meanwhile, localities that were not affected by the typhoon must strive to increase productivity to compensate the agricultural losses and support the others in their relief work.
The Government Office is responsible for keeping tabs on the implementation of the official dispatch and reporting to the Prime Minister as well as Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha on any arising issues.
Source: VNA