Yen Thanh district launched a nationwide campaign to build irrigation works.

Attending the ceremony were comrades: Tran Thi Binh - Standing Deputy Secretary of the District Party Committee; Nguyen Van Duong - Vice Chairman of the District People's Committee; leaders of communes in the district and a large number of people of Van Thanh commune.

The irrigation campaign of Yen Thanh district started from October 14 to December 31, and is expected to dredge 22,931 m³ construction excavation and dredging 45,863 m³Drainage canals, internal field drainage. At the same time, building embankments in the area, field banks; grading and pouring concrete on internal roads; clearing and cutting grass; consolidating canals... Total mobilized working days are about 183,451 days.

Speaking at the launching ceremony of irrigation work, Mr. Nguyen Van Duong - Vice Chairman of Yen Thanh District People's Committee said: The main objective of the launching ceremony of irrigation work is for localities to focus on overcoming the consequences of damaged irrigation works after the flood. Dredging irrigation canal systems, clearing the flow of drainage axes and intra-field drainage canals to ensure water drainage, promptly repairing damaged clean water works, and removing water hyacinths on main drainage canals.

Maintain and upgrade machinery and equipment of stations, fix violations and encroachments on the corridors of irrigation works. Repair lakes and dams, store water to ensure capacity, and use economically to serve production in the 2022-2023 crop year.

Thereby, reviewing the approved natural disaster prevention and control plans of lakes and dams; proactively dealing with all possible situations. Repairing lakes and dams, storing water to ensure capacity, using it economically to serve production in the 2023-2024 crop. Building banks to retain water and continuing to release fish for the third crop in the fields that meet production conditions.

Combine the campaign to launch irrigation projects in the fields with the rural traffic program, field traffic and new rural construction; launch a field sanitation movement to treat pathogens and disease vectors that harm rice and winter crops, and kill rats and locusts.

Yen Thanh district assigned targets to communes, at the same time, guided communes and towns to develop plans to organize and implement the campaign to build irrigation works well. Regularly check, monitor, urge, synthesize and promptly report results to the district People's Committee, provincial departments, branches and sectors, promptly commend and reward units and individuals who do well.

Immediately after the launching ceremony of irrigation work, the People's Committee of Van Thanh commune mobilized over 300 workers, along with equipment and machinery to repair banks, dredging canals at a number of canals in the commune.