After a magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurred in Dingri County, Shigatse City, Tibet, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs immediately launched the national earthquake disaster emergency response measures, and then upgraded to a magnitude 2. Together with local governments, verify the disaster situation, coordinate Tibet's agricultural, rural and rural revitalization departments to speed up the dispatch and report relevant situations, guide and support local governments to do a good job in earthquake relief and disaster relief, and strengthen investigations on the risk of poverty relapse.
According to preliminary dispatch, local emergency supplies such as overwintering forage, animal vaccines, disinfectants, etc. are relatively sufficient. In addition, the local area is conducting statistical verification of casualties and injuries to people who have been lifted out of poverty, as well as house damage, and agricultural disasters.
In the next step, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs will continue to pay attention to changes in earthquake disasters, schedule and grasp the disaster situation in real time, guide local agricultural and rural departments to cooperate with other departments to cooperate with harmless treatment of livestock and poultry deaths due to disasters and clean and disinfect the breeding environment, take precise assistance measures for the affected people who have been affected and lifted out of poverty as soon as possible, strengthen agricultural disaster prevention and mitigation technical services, help strengthen breeding facilities, and maintain stable supply of agricultural products.
(CCTV reporter Wang Kaibo and Chen Bo)
