Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan "opens his heart" about the possibly historic moment related to Typhoon Yagi

The lesson of Typhoon Yagi is that we need to restructure the entire agricultural sector system to adapt sustainably. The cages in Van Don, Quang Ninh need to be stronger and the ports need to be able to withstand higher levels of storms.

Speaking at the end of the discussion session on the Socio-Economic Situation in 2024 and Forecast for 2025, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) Le Minh Hoan shared a related story of the agricultural sector about lessons learned after dealing with super typhoon Yagi, which devastated 30% of the country.

There is no best solution, only the choice of the least damage.

According to Minister Le Minh Hoan, Typhoon Yagi left us with many lessons with the participation of the whole society, of hundreds of thousands of armed forces, police, military, and volunteers who stuck to the dikes and lakes.

“There were very difficult times,” Mr. Hoan said. “There were problems at moments that could be historic for us to hesitate about solutions.”

Mr. Le Minh Hoan - Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) gave a speech explaining the discussion session this afternoon, November 4 (Photo: QH.VN).

According to Mr. Hoan: "As the Prime Minister said, there are times when there is no perfect solution, only a solution chosen to minimize damage."

“I would also like to share with you once again the losses and damages of the people as well as businesses in all sectors and fields of the agricultural sector,” Mr. Hoan mused: “If we come directly to witness the losses and pain at the scene, we will see that the aftershocks are still too great.”

Mr. Hoan expressed his thanks to the localities for proactively taking action, and to the leaders of the central ministries and branches for their timely coordination during the country's difficult time, when the storm covered 30% of the country's area.

The leader of the Agriculture and Rural Development sector emphasized: Typhoon Yagi shows us that climate change is not a distant story, but even countries with potential in science and technology, disaster response or economic potential must cope with disasters and still receive the shocks of natural disasters.

We must recognize that after Typhoon Yagi, we need to improve disaster prevention and response and adapt to climate change.

“We must upgrade all our thinking about disasters and natural disasters to a higher level and handle higher situations, including infrastructure, standards, regulations, and planning of coastal localities…”, Mr. Hoan stated.

Regarding Decree 02 on supporting people for too long, Mr. Hoan informed: The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has submitted to the Prime Minister 2 draft Decrees, one Decree on supporting agricultural production damaged by natural disasters as well as plant pests and diseases and one Decree related to animal diseases.

The Prime Minister is also taking the process of ministries and branches with the approach that "it is impossible to fully compensate" all the losses of the people, but also not leaving too much distance between the disadvantages and damages of the people.

Besides, it is necessary to design policies to avoid exploitation, profiteering, and to avoid making it difficult for those who suffer losses, because this is a very big problem.

Regarding agricultural insurance, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development emphasized: After Typhoon Yagi, we also sat down and are redesigning the draft, submitting it to the Ministry of Finance to amend Decree 58 on agricultural insurance.

“Never before have we seen how necessary agricultural insurance is for us as it was after Typhoon Yagi,” said Mr. Hoan.

National Assembly delegates at the discussion session this afternoon, November 4.

“The lesson learned from Typhoon Yagi is that the entire agricultural industry system must be restructured to adapt sustainably. The cages in Van Don, Quang Ninh need to be more sturdy and the ports need to be able to withstand higher storm levels and types,” said the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Regarding sustainable aquaculture development, Minister Hoan informed that today, November 4, the Prime Minister has just signed Official Dispatch No. 111 on continuing to have drastic solutions for sustainable aquaculture development.

“The issue of sustainable development of our marine resources is important. IUU is a step for us to move towards sustainable development, because the three illegal, unregulated, and unreported actions are all included in Article 10 of the 2017 Fisheries Law, which means that the law also regulates those three actions, but for many reasons we do not enforce them.

I affirm that the EU recommendations have been greatly improved, this is the effort of the entire political system from the central to local levels, the strong direction of the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister as well as local leaders. This has been recognized by the EU inspection team, we must join forces in this final period.

Source: https://danviet.vn/bo-truong-bo-nnptnt-le-minh-hoan-trai-long-ve-thoi-khac-co-the-la-lich-su-lien-quan-den-bao-yagi-202411041852465.htm