Hainan Bounces Back: Island Province Ramps Up Efforts to Revitalize Agriculture After Disaster
Hainan makes every effort to promote post-disaster agricultural production recovery
2024-11-01 15:10 Source: Farmers Daily Client Editor: Bao Jiaran
In the past few days, due to the continuous impact of heavy rainfall, many places in Hainan have been affected to varying degrees. As of 17:00 on October 31, the affected area of crops in Hainan Province was 97,000 acres, the disaster area was 41,000 acres, and the area with no harvest was 25,000 acres. The estimated crop loss was 24,000 tons, and the direct economic loss was 120 million yuan. Among them, the cities and counties where crops were severely affected were Haikou, Qionghai, Sanya, Wanning, and Lingshui.
Before and after the disaster, the Hainan Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs actively organized and carried out technical guidance. Since October 28, it has organized experts from the melon, vegetable and rice industry technical systems to go to Qionghai, Sanya and other severely affected cities and counties to carry out prevention and control through grouping and packaging. technical guidance on disaster reduction; issued 18 items including the “Clear Sheet on Animal Disease Prevention and Control after Floods”, “Technical Key Points for Animal Disease Prevention and Control after Floods” and “The Clear Sheet on Livestock and Poultry Breeding Management after Floods”; and connected with the technical team in advance, Deploy post-disaster technical guidance work and form a post-disaster animal epidemic prevention guidance team composed of personnel from the Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Department, Animal Disease Control Center, Animal Husbandry Extension Station, and Animal Health Station. After the heavy rain, they will immediately go to the front line to guide animal epidemic prevention and resume production.
On October 31, Hainan held a video dispatch meeting for flood and wind prevention. The meeting emphasized that after the floods and rainfall have passed, the risk has not passed. Saturation of mountains with water and long-term soaking of houses may cause secondary disasters. Relevant departments and cities and counties across the province must unswervingly investigate hidden dangers, focusing on strengthening inspections on mountain sides and watersides, especially on rivers and reservoirs, highways and bridges, wading houses, projects under construction, scenic spots, key places, low-lying and easily accessible areas. We will investigate hidden dangers such as waterlogging points and power and communication facilities, and actively carry out protection, restoration, epidemic prevention, seed rush, and replanting.
At present, the Hainan Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs is making every effort to organize cities and counties to dredge canals, rush to harvest rice, and conscientiously carry out winter melon and vegetable replanting and seedling cultivation work to ensure that winter melon and vegetable can be successfully launched on the market; it has organized industrial technology system experts to sink to the front line and carry out point-to-point work. guide. Integrating the strength of the animal husbandry system of the entire department, the provincial animal disease prevention and control guidance team was sent to Qionghai, Sanya, Lingshui, Wanning and other key disaster areas to carry out harmless treatment of dead livestock and poultry and animal disease prevention and control. In addition, we actively connect with the financial sector to guide the scientific and rapid implementation of agricultural insurance claims, reasonably increase small-amount credit support, and minimize the impact on farmers’ income increase.
Author: Yongmin Deng Weizhe, reporter of Farmers Daily·China Rural Network
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