Minister of Agriculture monitors flood situation in Chanthaburi-Trat

Minister of Agriculture visits Chanthaburi and Trat to monitor flood situation, stressing that all agencies must closely monitor the situation. Chanthaburi Province is on high alert after the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation raised the red flag. Lt. Col. Thammanat Prompao, Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives, visited the flood situation in Chanthaburi and Trat provinces after continuous rain in Pi Thawi sub-district for the past 2 days resulted in flash floods and flooding of houses, agricultural areas in 12 villages, affecting approximately 1,500 people in 600 households and 1 death. The damage caused by the flash floods included 4 bridges and 3 square culverts. Government agencies and the Chanthaburi Red Cross Society have come together to provide 50 relief bags and 1,000 packages of drinking water to those affected by the flood, as well as financial assistance for the funeral rites of Mr. Kittisak and Ms. Warunee, who lost their 11-year-old daughter to the flood disaster. Lt. Col. Thammanat said that he emphasized ordering the deputy director-general of the Royal Irrigation Department to oversee water management in the two provinces by learning from Trat Province, which had problems in the water situation prevention and resolution system. In the past, he has ordered the deputy director-general to seriously supervise the area and closely monitor the water situation during this period. He has also ordered relevant agencies to have the district agricultural officers and provincial agricultural officers survey the damage to the people, whether it be field crops, fisheries, or livestock, so that the government can provide assistance and care. Chanthaburi water situation under special surveillance after the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation raised the red flag The flood situation, overflowing riverbanks from the continuous rain in Chanthaburi Province has not improved. The Chanthaburi Incident Command Center has changed the yellow flag to a red flag at the Chanthaburi River Bridge to warn people along the riverbank to be extra vigilant and prepare to move belongings to higher ground. While the water mass has begun to affect some low-lying communities along the river, such as Ban Lum, Hua Laem, low-lying areas along the Chanthanimit Canal, Khlong Khi Non, while outside Khlung District, Makham District, Khao Khitchakut District, Na Yai Am District, Tha Mai District, Saeng Subdistrict, Mueang District, there is flooding in low-lying areas and fruit orchards have been damaged. After 27-28 July, there was continuous heavy rain in the area with a cumulative rainfall of more than 340 millimeters in the areas of Makham District, Mueang Chanthaburi District, Khlung District and Pong Nam Ron District, causing a large amount of water to suddenly flood in all 4 districts, affecting people in 16 sub-districts, 74 villages, 7 communities, 33,397 households, 9,130 ??people, and more than 41,222 rai of agricultural land was affected. Currently, the situation outside has begun to return to no rmal in many areas, but the situation must still be closely monitored, especially in the economic zone of Chanthaburi city along the Chanthaburi River, where the symbolic flag must be changed to red for monitoring and warning people in the lowlands along the Chanthaburi River to reduce losses and enable assistance, compensation, and restoration to return to the original condition quickly. Source: Thai News Agency