Assistance to hunger-hit ethnic minority people
Hanoi (VNA) – Sectors, branches and organisations in Vietnam had by May doled out a total of 9.6 billion VND in addition to 23,000 tonnes of food to aid northern ethnic minority people hit by food shortage and price hike.
The National Committee for Nationalities on July 1 reported that close to 767,000 ethnic minority people, mainly in the northwestern and northeastern and north central areas, had so far coped with the shortage of food.
The committee said natural calamities, animal diseases, and price hikes of both materials for agricultural production and essential commodities were the main causes behind the situation.
The over-month cold spell early this year alone cost ethnic minority people in the northern mountainous region dear, killing as many as 140,000 buffalos and cows and devastating thousands of hectares of paddy rice with a total loss amounting to hundreds of billions of VND, the committee said.
The committee has instructed the administrations in localities inhabited by ethnic minority people to continue executing preferential treatments in terms of farming land, housing, water supply, price subsidy and loans for production to help those disadvantaged ethnic minority people overcome difficulties in the coming time.
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