The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Committee of central Binh Thuan province and the provincial Military Command held a gathering with local religious dignitaries and exemplars of ethnic groups on January 6.
More than 954 tonnes of rice from the national reserve were sent to the south-central province of Ninh Thuan on October 13 and 14 to assist local people in drought-plagued areas.
Novaland, one of the leading property developers in Vietnam, presented water purifying systems to schools in the south-central province of Binh Thuan’s Bac Binh district on June 30, which is facing a severe shortage of clean water.
Recent research from experts at the German Foundation for Science and Politics (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik - SWP) highlighted shortcomings in managing the Mekong River’s water resources.
Hundreds of hectares of agricultural land in the south central province of Ninh Thuan have to stop production. Reservoirs are also running out day by day, threatening the lives of people and cattle.
After harvesting the Winter-Spring crop, local farmers on the downstream Vu Gia river in Quang Nam province have already prepared for the Summer-Autumn crop. Due to a shortage of water, farmers in the locality have switched to shorter period plant varieties or rotated to other crops.
The Kenh Lap Reservoir in Ben Tre province, the largest in the Mekong Delta, is drying up due to drought and saltwater intrusion, leaving thousands of households facing a water shortage.
Local people living in the buffer zone next to U Minh Thuong National Park in Kien Giang province have been suffering from severe drought in recent times.
The agriculture sector in central highlands Dak Lak province has been seriously damaged due to a prolonged drought. Lakes and reservoirs are also running out of water, leaving local people struggling.
The central province of Ninh Thuan is seeking ways to boost production in the dry season 2020, including focusing on more lucrative crop varieties and those with increased tolerance to drought.
Given what has been achieved so far, the export revenue of forestry products is likely to reach 11 billion USD in 2019, higher than the target of 10.5 billion USD.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has forecast that Vietnam’s economy will maintain healthy growth in 2019 and 2020 at 6.8 percent and 6.7 percent, respectively.
The US Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Green Annamites Project has recently equipped the central province of Thua Thien-Hue with a forest management system.
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