According to the Vietnam Central Committee for Flood and Storm Control, around 200,000 hectares of agricultural production area has suffered.
Nam Dinh was among the hardest-hit provinces post-Typhoon Mirinae. 150 hectares of aquaculture farming were damaged. Ninety percent of the province’s agricultural area has been submerged, and is at risk of being completely lost.
"The damage done to shrimp farms is in the hundreds of millions of VND. The typhoon broke the borders of the farms, and the shrimp could not survive the strong winds and harsh weather conditions", Nguyen Duc Hai - Giao Tien Commune, Giao Thuy District, Nam Dinh Province - said.
The Vietnam Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention estimates that some 5,600 trees fell, while 200,000 hectares of rice crops were flooded and nearly 21,000 hectares of vegetable crops damaged. While sewage systems were cleared in advance of the floods, power outages across localities in the province still pose major challenges to the recovery process.
