Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs： The overall deviation of meteorological year this year is arduous.

　　BEIJING, April 28 (Xinhua) According to the website of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, on April 28, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs held a meeting of the leading group for flood control and drought relief. The meeting pointed out that the overall deviation of China’s meteorological year this year, the trend of regional and staged droughts and floods is more obvious, extreme weather and climate events may increase, and the task of agricultural disaster prevention and bumper harvest is arduous. At present, the southern part of China has entered the flood season ahead of schedule, and spring ploughing and spring irrigation have been carried out in various places, and agricultural flood control and drought relief work has entered a critical period.

　　The meeting stressed that this year is a special year, and agricultural and rural departments at all levels should earnestly strengthen the prevention of agro-meteorological disasters, reduce disaster losses, and strive to win a bumper harvest of grain and agriculture in a well-off year.

　　The meeting proposed that we should base ourselves on preventing floods, fighting droughts, seizing major risks and saving major disasters, and pay close attention to the work of agricultural disaster prevention and mitigation.

　　The first is to strengthen the implementation of responsibilities. It is necessary to perform their duties according to their functions, clarify the list of responsibilities, implement the responsibilities in the whole process of agricultural disaster prevention and mitigation, and refine the implementation from post to person.

　　The second is to strengthen disaster prevention. Prepare the material plan as early as possible, grasp the major weather change trend, and release early warning information in time.

　　The third is to strengthen monitoring and judgment. Strengthen emergency duty, dispatch disasters at the first time, and scientifically analyze and judge the impact of disasters. Do a good job in submitting information, and timely reflect the progress of agricultural disasters and disaster relief work.

　　The fourth is to strengthen guidance services. Formulate scientific disaster prevention, mitigation and relief technical scheme. Timely dispatch work supervision groups and expert guidance groups to carry out roving technical services to help the disaster-stricken areas resume production as soon as possible.