FAO's emergency assistance to aquaculture in Mecong Delta
Ha Noi, April 23 (VNA) -- The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has granted USD 413,000 as emergency aid to help poor and vulnerable fish farmers in the flood affected provinces of the Mekong delta.
Beneficiaries are Can Tho (USD 66,000), Dong Thap (USD 123,000) and An Giang (USD 224,000).
Documents to the aid were signed in Ha Noi on April 23 by Deputy Minister of Fisheries Nguyen Viet Thang and FAO representative in Viet Nam Ms Fernanda Guerrieri.
Under the project, FAO will provide these provinces with fingerlings, rice seeds, vegetable seeds, fertilizers and fruit tree saplings.
Since November last year, FAO has given Mekong delta provinces agricultural inputs worth nearly USD 1.5 million.
The fund came from FAO itself and from the governments of Denmark, Netherlands, Norway, and Switzerland through the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in response to the UN Inter-Agency Appeal launched in October last year.--VNA
