After more than 3 weeks since the flash flood and landslide, we returned to the Muong Pon flood area, the scene was devastated, full of rocks and rubbish. The previously fertile fields, which were the "rice fields and honey fields" of the farmers, were now filled with rocks and soil, making it impossible to continue cultivating. The concern of the people and the commune government is how to have fields and gardens for cultivation and production.
The family of Ms. Lo Thi Phong, Muong Pon 1 village is one of the households that suffered heavy losses due to flash floods and landslides. Previously, the family's food mainly came from rice cultivation, but after the flood, the rice fields were buried by rocks and debris. Ms. Phong said: "Without rice fields, I don't know how to produce food now. I hope the State and government agencies will help people in the village restore their land for production soon."
According to statistics, in the recent flood, Muong Pon commune had 571 households in the villages: Muong Pon 1, Tin Toc, Huoi Chan, Huoi Un whose production land was buried and washed away, with a total area of 123 hectares. Many households who lost their land were at risk of starvation when this crop was completely lost. Previously, farmers here had to work hard "selling their faces to the land, selling their backs to the sky" but basically ensured their daily food. Now that they no longer have land for production, they cannot work hard on the fields anymore.
According to statistics of Dien Bien District People's Committee, out of the total 123 hectares of affected production land, 66.5 hectares were buried in large volumes, and people could not overcome them, including: Muong Pon 1 village had 36.3 hectares buried by rocks and soil from 3-8m; Linh village had 24.2 hectares buried from 1-5m; Tin Toc village had 6 hectares buried from 3-5m. The area of rice fields buried in small volumes of rocks and soil, and people could overcome them themselves was 48.5 hectares in the following villages: Co Chay 1 (1.74 hectares); Co Chay 2 (4.8 hectares); Huoi Un (0.45 hectares); Huoi Chan 1 (4.1 hectares); Huoi Chan 2 (0.41 hectares); Pa Cha (0.06 hectares); Muong Pon 2 (more than 16.3 hectares); Tin Toc (8.1 hectares); Linh village (more than 12.5 hectares). Of which, 8 hectares of rice fields in Linh village were eroded and completely washed away by flood. In addition, at Na Un stream, due to prolonged rain, the strong flow caused serious erosion on both sides of the stream, with a high risk of affecting 15 hectares of people's fields.
Muong Pon is a purely agricultural commune, people's lives mainly depend on agricultural production (rice is the main crop), but floods have destroyed productive land, significantly affecting food security in the coming time. In the immediate future, to stabilize people's lives and ensure food security, local authorities, agencies, organizations, and philanthropists have joined hands to support and donate rice, instant noodles, and other necessities. However, in the long term, it is necessary to quickly restore viable productive land; for the washed-away areas, there should be a plan to arrange productive land elsewhere for people.
According to information from the People's Committee of Dien Bien district, to ensure stable production for the people, the district is urgently implementing procedures to directly support households suffering losses in agricultural production according to Decision No. 21/2018/QD-UBND dated April 23, 2018 of the People's Committee of Dien Bien province. Accordingly, direct support for 571 damaged households with a total cost of 866 million VND. Regarding livelihood development, support for commercial poultry farming models (chickens, geese, ducks...) to create livelihoods for 395 households during the time when the cultivated land and production land are buried by soil and rocks and cannot be restored (cycle of 3 litters). Support for transporting part of the soil and rocks, support for leveling the surface layer to restore production in fields buried in large volumes that people cannot fix themselves (66.5 hectares); Support rice planting model, land improvement, and rice field bank leveling after leveling and returning the field surface with an area of 115 hectares.
According to Mr. Lo Van Cuong, Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, for the area of production land buried with a thickness of over 1m that people cannot fix themselves, the People's Committee of Dien Bien district has directed specialized agencies to coordinate with the provincial Department of Cultivation and Plant Protection to study restoration plans. At the same time, they will propagate, guide and support households to change the crop structure to suit actual conditions. As for the area with light damage that people can fix, the People's Committee of Dien Bien district will encourage people to proactively fix it; have a plan to mobilize forces to urgently fix irrigation and drainage to serve production.
After the flood, initial support has been actively implemented, but in the long term, a suitable and fundamental plan is needed to restore production and livestock. The damage to agricultural production caused by floods cannot be restored overnight. In the immediate future, local authorities and organizations need to actively propagate and mobilize relatives and friends who have lost their land to share their land with each other for food production. To ensure stability and longevity, specialized agencies need to urgently but carefully ensure the survey and assessment of damage to develop and design effective recovery plans.
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