China News Service, July 27. According to the website of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, on July 26, the party group of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs held a meeting and emphasized that it is racing against time to do a good job in disaster prevention and mitigation, and resolutely maintain the basic harvest of food and agriculture throughout the year.

It is necessary to fully understand the severe challenges brought by extreme weather, put agricultural disaster prevention and mitigation in a prominent position in the current work, and go all out to grasp key tasks such as post-disaster recovery of production, animal disease prevention and control, and disaster return to poverty monitoring and assistance. A bumper harvest of food and agriculture wins the initiative.

Data map: The golden rice fields show a bumper harvest.

Photo by Li Jun

  The meeting pointed out that the current critical period of flood prevention, Henan and other places have recently experienced extreme rainstorms, and crops in some areas have been seriously affected.

It is necessary to race against time to seize the agricultural time, work hard for time and speed, and do a solid job in disaster prevention and reduction and post-disaster production recovery to minimize disaster losses.

Organize and carry out package supervision and expert technical services in Baosteel, guide the flooded areas to rush to drain farmland water, repair water-damaged facilities, promptly deploy and transport disaster relief seeds, and promptly replant and replant the land without harvest; do a good job in replenishing livestock and poultry and fish Pond replenishing seedlings, strengthen the prevention and control of animal diseases such as African swine fever, and ensure "no major epidemics after a major disaster"

  It is necessary to actively coordinate relevant departments, increase disaster relief efforts in rural areas, and effectively protect the lives and property of farmers.

Encrypted monitoring of disaster-affected people who are prone to return to poverty, timely warning and early assistance, and resolutely prevent large-scale disaster return to poverty.

At the same time, it is necessary to fully estimate the uncertainty of the occurrence of extreme weather and disasters in the future. In particular, it is necessary to be highly vigilant about the sudden turn of floods and droughts, strengthen communication with emergency, water conservancy, meteorological and other departments, do a good job of analysis and judgment, issue early warnings in time, and strengthen emergency duty to achieve Anticipation first, prevention and control first.