(Economic Observation) Responding to the epidemic and floods, many places in China offer "combined punches" to prevent poverty from returning to poverty
China News Agency, Beijing, August 26 (Reporter Ruan Yulin) "All the seeds and fertilizers in the family have been invested. Now 5,400 acres of rice and shrimp and 3,300 acres of double-cropping rice are all submerged." Wanggang, Xishui County, Huanggang City, Hubei Province Chen Wen, a major grain grower in the Zhenchangyuan Agricultural Cooperative, told reporters a few days ago.
Since July 6, Wanggang Town has ushered in the largest precipitation since the flood season, with a daily precipitation of 340 mm. Many tributaries flooded, and the entire Chenmiao River Basin was a vast ocean, and the 8,700 mu of rice fields contracted by Chen Wen suffered a disaster.
In the face of the flood, the Xishui County Agriculture and Rural Bureau urgently dispatched 6 large drainage pumps and 62 pumping stations to work together to rush to drain the accumulated water in the farmland. At the same time, machinery and equipment such as excavators, forklifts, and transport vehicles are used to clear ditch drainage and repair water-damaged facilities during rainfall gaps. Due to the timely drainage of stagnant water, the 3,300 mu of early rice in Changyuan Agricultural Cooperative kept part of the harvest.
Starting from July 11, 44,000 catties of rice and corn seeds, 3,000 packs of vegetable seeds, 42,000 breeding floppy disks, chemical fertilizers, pesticides and other materials have been delivered to Wanggang Town, and distributed to market entities and farmers by the town.
"I received 20,000 catties of rice seeds. After soaking the seeds, I started rushing to plant them." Chen Wen said, the county also allocated seeders, fertilizers and pesticides for us.
According to reports, with the efforts of all parties, 24,040 acres of farmland has been rushed to manage the Chenmiao River Basin, which minimized the losses caused by floods.
Since entering the plum blossoms on June 8, severe flooding and geological disasters have occurred in many parts of Hubei Province. As of July 24, the disasters involved 37 poor counties (including 28 nationally designated poor counties), 2,522 poor villages, and 778,000 poor people; 375 people were included in poverty alleviation monitoring households, and 113 people were included in marginal households due to the disaster; 23,604 poor people were relocated and 21,489 poor people were rescued urgently; 535 households and 1,304 people were poor in dilapidated houses due to the disaster; 12.86 crops were affected by the disaster. 10,000 hectares, 49,400 hectares of dead crops due to disasters, loss of more than 2 million heads of livestock, resulting in a loss of 227 million yuan (RMB, the same below) in the poverty alleviation and breeding industry; direct economic losses of 2.232 billion yuan.
In the face of severe flood conditions, the Hubei Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government paid close attention to the disaster situation of poverty-stricken areas and poor people, implemented targeted assistance measures, and effectively prevented poverty from returning to poverty due to disasters. And urgently allocate and distribute disaster relief funds and materials to ensure that the affected people have food, clothing, clean water, shelter, and timely medical treatment if they are sick.
In Guangxi, since the flood season, large-scale heavy rainfall weather has occurred in northern and central Guangxi, leading to severe floods in many places. As of July 29, the flood disaster caused 1,742 poor villages in 66 counties in 10 cities in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region to be affected. The affected population was 274,500; the emergency resettlement population was 246,700, and 114,300 people were in need of emergency living assistance; The affected crop area is 266,800 hectares; the poverty alleviation and breeding industry lost 463.45 million yuan.
After the disaster, the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region's Poverty Alleviation Office, in conjunction with agriculture and other departments, immediately organized 106 counties (cities, districts) with poverty alleviation and development tasks to verify, make statistics, and report on the disaster situation of poor people, implement classified policies, and carry out production self-rescue and post-disaster reconstruction work .
The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region organized the cities and counties to find out the impact of flood disasters on poverty-stricken areas and poor people. For those who may return to poverty and lead to poverty, one household was monitored and one household was assisted. As of the end of July, the region had identified 87 farmers who were at risk of returning to poverty due to the disaster, and timely implemented corresponding measures such as industry, employment, and comprehensive protection to eliminate the risk of returning to poverty.
In Jiangxi, as of the end of July, 24 poor counties, 2,131 poor villages and 248,000 poor people were affected by floods in the province. Jiangxi Province has effectively strengthened assistance measures, and organized poverty alleviation forces such as village cadres and designated poverty alleviation units to actively participate in flood prevention work. Coordinating poverty alleviation policies such as industrial employment, helping poor people promptly replenish farming and replanting crops, etc., help disaster-stricken people restore the order of production and life as soon as possible, and prevent disasters from causing a sudden loss of income for some poor people.
At the recent video and teleconference on overcoming the impact of the epidemic and ensuring full poverty alleviation on schedule, Hu Chunhua, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and leader of the State Council’s Leading Group for Poverty Alleviation and Development, emphasized that in the face of the risks and challenges that the epidemic situation brings to the decisive victory of poverty alleviation, we must take measures More powerful and effective response measures to ensure that poverty alleviation tasks are fully completed on schedule. (Finish)