ENGLISH DEYEA NEWS

Mizzima News:

A relief team working for cyclone survivors has announced that about 100,000 tarpaulin sacks were required for protection of farmlands from sea water, in at least 13 village tracts in Dadeye Township in Irrawaddy Division.

Domestic emergency relief operation network for cyclone victims— the ‘Myanmar/Burma Emergency Aid Network’ (M/BEAN) has invited well-wishers to donate for the renovation work on embankments, which prevents seawater from entering the farmlands in these villages.

In its appeal, M/BEAN said that the nine-mile long embankment was broken in at least 17 places and seawater had inundated thousands of acres of farmland in this area. Moreover, the seawater level was still rising and the farmers were finding it difficult to cultivate their farmland on time in the monsoon plantation season.

M/BEAN is conducting relief and rehabilitation operations in Dadeye Township and in nearby areas, relying only on the resources provided by their friends and volunteers of the network.

An official of this network declined to give further details when contacted.

The nine-mile long 8′x16′ embankment was constructed to protect farmlands in Hnakhaung Chaung, Kawek Chaung, Kawek Yekan Chaung, Kyat Sin Pyo, Tamar Takaw, Toe, Kyone Kani, Oo Toe, Su Kalak, Shankan, Taw Chaik, Kyone Kadek, Mayan West village tracts in east of Dadeye Township from inundation by seawater and also to guard against tidal waves.

The renovation work must be done during ebb tide between June 10 to 14 and June 25 to 29 for timely plantation. The local people need to renovate the cyclone damaged embankment in time for their plantation season in coming Waso (July), M/BEAN said.

“The state-run TV has broadcast their renovation work on this embankment with negligible manpower and little machinery. The people filled the embankment with sand and then used the machinery for renovation work. They could not finish the work on time this way, ” a volunteer engaged in relief work, who had just returned from Dadeye to Rangoon said.