The first two typhoons to hit Vietnam this year have caused damage worth more than 6.7 trillion VND (297.7 million USD), announced the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development (MARD).
Flashflood damaged a house in Dong Tuyen commune, Lao Cai city. (Source: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The first two typhoons to hit Vietnam this year have caused damage worth more than 6.7 trillion VND (297.7 million USD), announced the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development (MARD) on August 8.
Typhoons Mirinae and Nida hit the Southeast Asian nation in late July and early August respectively, causing 20 people to die or go missing and injuring another 82.
Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung said in an online cabinet meeting on the typhoons’ damage on August 8 that the main reason for the huge losses was shortcomings in weather forecasting.
The Central Meteorological Forecast Centre (CMFC) Director Hoang Duc Cuong acknowledged that forecast reports failed to predict the exact localities hit by Typhoon Mirinae or the unusually prolonged strong winds.
“No meteorological centres in Vietnam are able to project it (the wind pattern change) and this is a weakness of the typhoon forecasting technology,” he said.
Ninh Binh Province was one of those heavily struck by Typhoon Mirinae, yet it was not included in the emergency meeting between 12 coastal localities from Quang Ninh to Nam Dinh provinces where the CMFC predicted the typhoon would hit, reported the Central Steering Committee on Disaster Prevention’s Office.
MARD Minister Nguyen Xuan Cuong said that disaster forecasting needed improvement, both in equipment as well as personnel training.
“International cooperation should also be strengthened for more reliable forecasts,” he said.
Cuong also asked for a rice seed reserve in the northern lowland region to prepare for any future storms.
“As the Hong (Red) river delta is prone to storms and typhoons, we must have at least five percent of rice seeds reserved for disasters,” he said.
“If we follow that principle we will no longer struggle to resume production after floods recede.”
The storms flooded nearly 256,000ha of agricultural land in the affected localties, according to MARD.
The power infrastructure, meanwhile, also experienced problems during Typhoon Mirinae, Cuong said.
More than 31,000 power poles fell across affected localities in the storm, disproportionately in Nam Dinh Province with nearly 24,000 poles falling. Damages to the electricity sector were estimated at about 384 billion VND (17 million USD), according to MARD’s report.
ౠ “There must have a reason behind such mass power pole collapse. It could be the poles’ low quality or some other cause, but it is urgent to thoroughly inspect the whole power infrastructure,” Deputy PM said.-VNA
The Central Steering Committee on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control has asked its sub-committees in coastal localities from Quang Ninh to Binh Dinh to brace for tropical storm Nida.
The Prime Minister on August 1 ordered ministries, agencies and localities to actively make preparations to cope with typhoon Nida, which entered the East Sea the previous night.
Local authorities of the northern mountainous provinces of Son La and Bac Kan were requested to focus on overcoming the consequences of typhoon Nida, which had a severe impact on northern localities.
Deputy PM Vuong Dinh Hue has ordered the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to grant nearly 1,000 tonnes of rice, maize and vegetable seeds from the national reserves to affected-provinces.
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Flashflood damaged a house in Dong Tuyen commune, Lao Cai city. (Source: VNA)
