Most of the rice mills in Myanmar's Yangon division, which were destroyed in a cyclone storm early last month, have resumed operation after prompt repair, the local weekly Flower News reported Tuesday.
Of the 110 over-15-ton rice mills in Yangon division, nearly 100 have returned to normal operation since the beginning of this month, the report said quoting the Myanmar's Rice Millers Association. However, of the 170 rice mills in the cyclone-hard-hit Ayeyawaddy delta region, only 50 could run.
The private rice millers are endeavoring to put all the 280 rice mills in both divisions into full production by the beginningof next year, the report added.
Meanwhile, according to Tuesday's official newspaper New Light of Myanmar, 32 main rice mills of 25-ton capacity in the delta region's Mawlamyinegyun township have been reoperating normally after renovation.
Ayeyawaddy division was traditionally known as the "rice bowl" of Myanmar.
In the cyclone disaster, over 1 million acres (405,000 hectares)of cultivable lands were flooded with sea water in 7 townships in Ayeyawaddy division, 3 in Yangon division, 2 in Bago division and 3 in Mon state during the storm with over 200,000 draught cattle killed, according to official statistics.
Meanwhile, a month after the storm Nargis, surviving farmers ina number of cyclone-hit townships in Ayeyawaddy delta and Yangon division, including Kungyangon, Laputta, Ngaputtaw, Mawlamyinegyun,Bogalay and Dedaye, have started ploughing monsoon paddy using powered tillers provided in place of storm-swept draught cattle.
Besides the rice mills, fish and prawn breeding ponds in Yangondivision's Twantay, Kayan and Kyauktan townships as well as those in Ayeyawaddy division's Dedaye township were much destroyed by the storm Nargis.
Deadly tropical cyclone Nargis, which occurred over the Bay of Bengal, hit five divisions and states -- Ayeyawaddy, Yangon, Bago,Mon and Kayin on May 2 and 3, of which Ayeyawaddy and Yangon inflicted the heaviest casualties and massive infrastructural damage.
The storm has killed 77,738 people and left 55,917 missing and 19,359 injured according to the official-released death toll.
Source:Xinhua
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