Ambassador Mitchell met with farmers in Myaung Bwe village, in Mrauk-U township: သံအမတ္ႀကီး မစ္ခ်ဲလ္ေၿမာက္ဦးၿမဳိ႕လယ္ကြင္းထဲ ဆင္း၍ ေလ႔လာ

သံအမတ္ႀကီးမစ္ခ်ဲလ္က ေျမာက္ဦးၿမဳိ႕အျပင္ဘက္ေျမာင္ဘြယ္ရြာမွ လယ္သမားမ်ားႏွင့္လည္းေတြ႔ခဲ့ပါသည္။ ယင္းေဒသမွလယ္သမားေတာ္ေတာ္ မ်ားမ်ား ေရလႊမ္းမႈဒဏ္ေၾကာင့္၎တုိ႔၏ လယ္မ်ားအားလုံးဆုံးရႈံးခဲ့ရပါသည္။ ေရေဘးသင့္လယ္သမား ၁,၆၀၀ ေက်ာ္အတြက္ အေမရိကန္ႏုိင္ငံ တကာ ဖြံ႕ၿဖဳိးေရးေအဂ်င္စီက မ်ဳိးစပါးမက္ထရစ္ ရွစ္ တန္ေက်ာ္ကုိျဖန္႔ျဖဴးေပးလ်က္ရွိပါသည္။ ဤ သက္ငယ္ (ေကာက္ငယ္) မ်ဳိးစပါးက အခ်ိန္သိပ္မက်န္ေတာ့ေသာ ယခုႏွစ္စုိက္ပ်ဳိးရာသီအတြက္အေထာက္အကူျဖစ္ပါလိမ့္မည္။ အပ်က္အစီးသိပ္မမ်ားေသာ လယ္သမားမ်ားက ဤမ်ဳိးစပါးမ်ားကုိ၎တုိ႔ထက္လုိအပ္ေနသည့္သူမ်ားကုိလည္းေပးေစခ်င္သည့္အေၾကာင္းေျပာၾကပါသည္။

လယ္သမားအေတာ္မ်ားမ်ားႏွင့္စကားမ်ားေျပာၿပီး မ်ဳိးစပါးမ်ားပ်ိဳးႀကဲျခင္းကို ကူညီအၿပီးတြင္ သံအမတ္ႀကီးမစ္ခ်ဲလ္က “ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္ႏွင့္ႏုိင္ငံ တစ္ဝန္း လက္ရွိအခက္အခဲမ်ားမွ ျပန္လည္ထူေထာင္ႏုိင္ေရးအတြက္ အာရုံစုိက္ေနေၾကာင္း၊ ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္လူထုအတြက္ဆက္လက္ၿပီး ကူညီသြားဖုိ႔လည္းရည္ရြယ္ထားေၾကာင္း” ေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည္။

သဘာဝေဘးဒဏ္သင့္ျပည္သူ ၂၅၀,၀၀၀ ေက်ာ္အတြက္ကယ္ဆယ္ေရးႏွင့္ ျပန္လည္ထူေထာင္ေရးလုပ္ငန္းမ်ား ေဆာင္ရြက္ရန္ အေမရိကန္ ၿပည္ေထာင္စု အစုိးရက ေဒၚလာ ၄.၅ သန္းေက်ာ္ကုိလက္ရွိလုပ္ေဆာင္ေနသည့္ အစီအစဥ္မ်ားအျပင္အစီ အစဥ္အသစ္မ်ားမွတစ္ဆင့္ေထာက္ပံ့ ကူညီေပးသြားမည္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။

Ambassador Mitchell and USAID Mission Director Chris Milligan are in Rakhine State to observe flood relief efforts and visit affected communities. Yesterday, they visited Mrauk-U, where they were saddened to see the severe impact of the flooding. Despite the destruction, Ambassador Mitchell and the team were heartened and inspired by the spirit of resilience of those who have lost so much in the heavy rains and flooding.

Ambassador Mitchell met with farmers in Myaung Bwe village, in Mrauk-U township. Many farmers in this area have lost their entire crop due to flooding. USAID is distributing over nine metric tons of rice seed to help over 1,600 farmers affected by the flood. This specially-adapted short-cycle seed will help to limit the loss of this harvest season. Farmers whose crops fared better expressed their desire to donate this seed stock to neighbors with greater need.

After speaking to several farmers and helping plant rice seed, Ambassador Mitchell said, “We are focused on relieving the hardships of this state and across the country. We intend to continue to invest in the people of Rakhine State.”

Through new and existing activities, the U.S. government will provide over $4.5 million in flood relief and recovery assistance to people impacted by the disaster.