(ĐN)- On May 12, Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung chaired a video conference to summarize prevention and control work against natural calamities as well as search and rescue from 2015 until now, and deploying tasks for the months ahead.
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(ĐN)- On May 12, Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung chaired a video conference to summarize prevention and control work against natural calamities as well as search and rescue from 2015 until now, and deploying tasks for the months ahead.
Since the beginning of the year, natural calamities claimed 11 lives and caused more than VND9.7 trillion in property damage, around VND1.6 trillion higher than the figure last year, according to the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control.
At the conference, Deputy Prime Minister asked ministries, agencies and localities to take proactive measures in response to natural calamities to minimize the possible damages, focusing on communication work to raise public awareness of prevention and combat natural disasters.
Regarding the drought and saline intrusion situation in the South Central, Central Highlands and Mekong Delta regions, the deputy PM asked localities to instruct local people to use water economically and shift the structure of plants to adapt to increasingly extreme climatic phenomena.
In 2015, natural disasters damaged an estimated VND91 billion in Dong Nai. Since the beginning of this year, the severe drought already affected over 3,100 ha of agricultural land and distressed 900 households due to water shortage.
Reported by H.G
