THE MINISTRY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND
ENVIRONMENT
THE MINISTRY OF AQUATIC RESOURCES
THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD INDUSTRY
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence – Freedom – Happiness
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No:
04-LB/TT
Hanoi,
March 22, 1995
CIRCULAR
GUIDING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF DIRECTIVE
No.151-TTg ON THE 11TH OF MARCH, 1995 OF THE PRIME MINISTER TO CONCENTRATE
FORCES TO QUICKLY ERADICATE THE YELLOW SNAIL PEST
In execution of Directive No.528-TTg
on the 29th of September, 1994 of the Prime Minister “to ban the raising
and to eradicate immediately the yellow snails (scientific name: Pamecca
Canalicunata)”, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry has,
together with the concerned ministries and the administration at various levels
in the localities, effected the dismantlement of the industrial farms raising
yellow snails, and gathered 150 tons of snails and 14 tons of their eggs. But
this pest remains a great disaster and a major threat to agricultural
production. The Prime Minister has issued a second directive, Directive
No.151-TTg on the 11th of March, 1995, ordering the “concentration of
forces to quickly eradicate the yellow snail pest”. The Ministry of
Agriculture and Food Industry, the Ministry of Aquatic Resources, and the
Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment provide the following guidance
for the execution of the above-said Directive:
I. GENERAL PRINCIPLE:
– The Ministry of Agriculture
and Food Industry, the Ministry of Aquatic Resources, and the Ministry of
Science, Technology and Environment regard the yellow snail as an object of
botanical quarantine, which needs to be eradicated thoroughly.
– The above-said Ministries
shall coordinate with one another to organize their investigation and research,
in order to perfect the measures for eradication of the yellow snails.
– The three Ministries shall
mobilize the forces within their jurisdiction at both the center and in the
localities, and shall cooperate with the local administration at all levels to
eradicate the yellow snails.
II . MEASURES TO ERADICATE
THE YELLOW SNAILS:
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1. The importation of yellow
snails is strictly banned.
2. It is strictly forbidden to
transport yellow snails from one region to another.
3. It is strictly forbidden to
buy, sell or exchange yellow snails at the markets and restaurants.
B. Eradication of yellow snails:
1. No organization and no
individual are allowed to breed yellow snails in any form. All the yellow snails
at the snail breeding farms must have been destroyed by the end of April 1995
at the latest.
2. To collect and gather snails
and their eggs in the fields.
3. To release ducks on the
fields before the transplanting of rice seedlings, so that they may eat snails,
especially young snails. To dig a ditch 20 cm deep around field plots, in order
to concentrate the snails for easy collection. To plant stakes in the fields
for the snails to lay their eggs in order to collect them and destroy their
eggs.
4. To organize forces to collect
snails and their eggs in the ponds, lakes and canals. To release ducks to eat
the snails. Where the ponds and lakes are closely embanked, to release black
trout (scientific name: Mylopharyngodow piceus) to eat the snails.
5. To erect nets and bamboo
walls on the streams to prevent the snails from spreading, and to concentrate
them for easy collection.
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III. ORGANIZATION OF GUIDANCE
WORK IN IMPLEMENTATION:
1. To set up the Steering
Committee for Eradication of Yellow Snails:
– At the center: composed of
department-level officials of the three Ministries, and headed by a Vice
Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry.
– In the provinces and cities
directly under the Central Government: composed of representatives of the
Agriculture Service, the Aquaculture Service and the Science, Technology and
Environment Service headed by the Head of the Agriculture Service, and placed
under the direct leadership of the President of the provincial People’s
Committee.
– At the districts: headed by
the President of the district People’s Committee, and including representatives
of the Agriculture Section, and the concerned sections and commissions.
– At the communes and wards:
headed by the President of the commune or ward People’s Committee, and
including the Heads of hamlets or villages, and representatives of the
organizations concerned.
2. Tasks of the Steering
Committee:
– To direct the localities to
carry out measures for eradicating yellow snails.
– To assist the local
administrations to compile general reports, and send them periodically on the
30th of each month, and sum up the campaign of eradication of yellow snails to
report to the higher-level Steering Committee.
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3. Operational period of the
Steering Committees at various levels: from March 1995 to June 1995.
In the immediate future, two
drives of concentrated activity shall be launched, concentrating all forces
(population, pupils, army) to destroy the yellow snails in March and April,
each drive lasting from five to seven days. All households have to collect
yellow snails in the fields, lakes and ponds under their right to use. The
mobilized forces shall concentrate the gathering and destruction of yellow
snails in the public ponds, lakes and canals, and to aid the families who
cannot gather the snails by their own forces and means.
In the process of carrying out
this Circular, if some difficulties arise, or if they have to make any
proposal, the branches and localities shall send their opinions in time to the
Central Steering Committee for Eradication of Yellow Snails (the Ministry of
Agriculture and Food Industry) for settlement.
THE MINISTER OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND
ENVIRONMENT
Dang Huu
THE MINISTER OF AQUATIC RESOURCES
Nguyen Tan Trinh
THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD
INDUSTRY
Nguyen Cong Tan