Minister Nguyễn Xuân Cường: Pushing agriculture production and generating livelihoods for people in the Central Region

Minister Nguyen Xuan Cuong emphasized that weather in the coming months would be favorable and it would be time to focus on restoring agricultural production in the central provinces after the floods.

Overcoming the consequences of the typhoon No. 13, restoring production - the essential tasks

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong assessed that floods and rains in the Central provinces in the past few days have caused serious damages to people in the Central provinces. Post-flood production would be an urgent task at this time.

"From now to the end of the year, priority must be focused on supporting people to restore production after floods, resolutely not let any people lack food after floods" - Minister Nguyen Xuan Cuong emphasized strongly.

According to calculations by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, in order to reconstruct production and create livelihoods for people, it should focus on two main points: growing vegetables and raising poultry. As from now until the Lunar New Year, poultry farming would generate products, thereby helping people to have more income and create a livelihood for the next cycle.

"The localities should focus on supporting people to rapidly increase the area of ​​vegetables and crops, because if the production is not accelerated, it may cause vegetable shortage in the upcoming Lunar New Year. Therefore, it is necessary to consider immediate support of vegetable varieties for people, in deeply flooded areas the support can be 100% "- Minister Nguyen Xuan Cuong directed.

In order to promote livestock production after the floods, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development recommended the localities to perform well disinfection, ensuring a safe and disease-free environment ...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has also directed the Department of Livestock Production to coordinate with the National Agricultural Extension Center and related units in building poultry model after flooding to disseminate and replicate in the localities; at the same time directing aquaculture research institutes and local management agencies to monitor the environment in the farming areas, ensuring a safe environment before  re-starting the livestock raising so as to avoid damages.

In addition, Minister Nguyen Xuan Cuong noted that localities focused on reviewing and assessing the current status of the affected rice-growing area, taking measures to overcome, improve fields, and restore irrigation systems to promptly sow the next winter-spring crop.

Review the entire cultivated rice area and the support needs of districts, propose to support seeds for sowing, not to let the area without cultivation due to lack of seeds. With the rice fields buried by sand, soil and gravel, it is impossible to restore rice cultivation, consider converting to suitable crops.

For perennial crops, focus on guiding technical solutions to restore perennial plantations previously flooded. Building production models with special attention to vegetables, short-term crops, classes to guide technical solutions to restore perennial plants ...

Farmers "thirst" for plant seeds and animal breedings

Just returning from a survey to restore and reconstruct production after floods in the Central provinces, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien said that after the floods, the need for new seeds and breedings to reconstruct and restore production is very large because 80,000 pigs, 15,000 cattle, 3.3 million poultry, and tens of thousands of hectares of crops were damaged by the floods.

Currently, the localities are working hard to overcome the consequences of the typhoon No. 13 and the previous floods.

According to the statistics, to restore agricultural production after the floods, the Central provinces are in need of support 5,600 tons of rice seeds, 225 tons of maize seeds, 44.2 tons of vegetable seeds; along with that are 560,000 doses of vaccine, 140,000 liters and 105 tons of disinfectant chemicals.

Mr. Nguyen Nhu Cuong - Director General of the Department of Crop Production (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) said that, according to preliminary statistics, the localities severely damaged by floods are asking the Government to support 6,000 tons of rice seeds, 362 tons of corn seeds and 55 tons of vegetable seeds.

In which, Quang Tri province proposed to be supported 2,000 tons of rice seeds, 80 tons of maize and 15 tons of vegetable seeds; Quang Binh province - 2,000 tons of rice seeds, 120 tons of corn seeds, 200 tons of peanut seeds and 20 tons of vegetable seeds ...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has mobilized resources from organizations, units and individuals to support people in the 5 Central provinces that suffered the most damages by the floods with a total value of 150 billion VND.

According to Deputy Minister Phung Duc Tien, through different sources, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has supported people in 5 central provinces severely damaged by floods, including 1.1 million chicks, 17,000 duck breeds, 2,000 goose breeds; 300 tons of animal feed, 300 million VND for veterinary medicine; 85,000 liters and 120 tons of disinfectant chemicals. The Ministry also organized 23 training courses for people to restore the production.

Source: Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development