In 2018, the General Department of Irrigation was
successful in the construction of legal documents and in starting the
construction of the database and promoting communications to serve direction and
administration, especially the Department’s active participation with the
mission of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in inspecting
droughts and flooding and the operation of irrigation constructions in
localities, thereby giving timely advice to the Ministry of Agriculture and
Rural Development; issuing directives, official telegrams, and instructive
documents; and urging localities to implement the solutions for operating
irrigation constructions, preventing droughts, salinity, and flooding to
minimize the impacts on agricultural production and people’s livelihoods.
The 2017-2018 winter-spring crop provided irrigation
water for 611,800 hectares of rice, shortening the time for discharging water
from the hydroelectric reservoirs by 3 days compared as planned with a total
volume of 5.74 cubic meters, and so on. So far, 270,000 ha of upland crops have
been applied with advanced and water-saving saving exceeding by 38% as planned.
Duy Minh (Dieu Linh)