Climate change ruins agricultural land resources
VGP – It is projected that Việt Nam’s two biggest granaries, the Red River Delta and the Mekong Delta, will be badly submerged if the sea level rises 1 meter by the end of the 21st century.
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The news was made public on May 31 in Hà Nội at the seminar “Food
security and climate change.”
The scenario of one-meter sea-level rise, climatologists said, may
damage 5,000 square kilometers (a third of the area) of the Red River Delta and
flood 15,000-20,000 square kilometers (a half) of the Mekong Delta.
While the agricultural land resources are being narrowed, food security
for a rising population in Việt
It is estimated that by 2020, the country need to raise its food
productivity by half to feed its over 100 million population.
According to Mr. Đặng Hùng Võ, a former Deputy Minister of Natural
Resources and Environment, scientific applications to agricultural production are
of great significance in order to raise productivity./.
