The direct economic loss was more than 14.57 billion yuan, and Zhejiang agriculture quickly resumed self-help after the disaster.
China Rural Network News (Reporter Jiang Wenlong, Zhu Haiyang) The landing of super typhoon "Likima" has had a great impact on Zhejiang’s economy. According to the latest statistics, as of 8: 00 on the 11th, the affected area of crops in Zhejiang Province was 173,000 hectares, with a total harvest of about 22,000 hectares, 34,000 houses damaged due to the disaster, and the direct economic loss was more than 14.57 billion yuan. At present, the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has issued a notice, demanding that all efforts be made to resume agricultural production after the typhoon.
Previously, Zhejiang has released agricultural disaster prevention and mitigation technical measures such as planting, animal husbandry and fishery. In order to effectively strengthen the guidance service and strengthen the implementation of technical measures, all parts of Zhejiang are coordinating relevant forces, selecting a group of people with familiar business and excellent skills to form a disaster relief guidance group, and rushing to the scene at the first time to investigate and understand the disaster situation, visit and sympathize with the affected farmers and agricultural production and operation entities, and help solve practical difficulties in agricultural production.
Zhejiang requires that all localities should use seeds, pesticides, fertilizers, disinfectants, vaccines and other reserve materials in time according to the disaster situation and demand, coordinate and organize the transfer of agricultural production materials between regions in time, and give priority to ensuring the supply of agricultural disaster relief materials. If the affected fields need to replant vegetables and other crops, it is necessary to coordinate and organize relevant seedling enterprises, pay close attention to breeding, and do a good job in docking seedlings.
The reporter learned that local agricultural disaster relief guidance groups have gone to the front line of disaster relief. On the 10th, technicians from Yueqing Agriculture and Rural Bureau went to Nanyue Egg Duck Breeding Community to guide the post-disaster recovery work, and went to the fields of farmers insured by policy agricultural insurance to check the disaster situation. Technicians from Deqing County Agricultural and Rural Bureau visited agricultural producers such as aquatic products, orchards and shrimp farming to survey and guide the response of agricultural typhoon prevention; Agricultural technicians from Xiangshan County Agriculture and Rural Bureau went to Dingtang Town Elemental Egg Duck Breeding Base and Shipu Town Grape Planting Base to provide guidance on post-disaster recovery.
The reporter learned that the typhoon node was special and had a great impact on fishery production in Zhejiang. Zhejiang Fishery Mutual Insurance Association has organized forces to rush to the disaster-stricken sites all over the province for the first time to collect survey information and statistics on damage data. Pacify members’ anxiety, and do a good job in claims settlement and service in post-disaster fishing areas. On the evening of the 9th, the Provincial Institute of Marine Fisheries dispatched 15 experts overnight to form a disaster relief expert guidance group, especially for Yueqing and Dongtou, which were seriously affected by the disaster, to visit and inspect the relevant breeding and seedling raising bases and enterprises on the spot, and to assist the local agricultural and rural departments to carry out disaster relief technical guidance. (Photo by: Zhejiang Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs)