(Bloomberg) -- Super Typhoon Yagi’s trail of devastation across southern China and northern Vietnam included up to 30 deaths, a major impact on agriculture...
-- Super Typhoon Yagi ’s trail of devastation across southern China and northern Vietnam included up to 30 deaths, a major impact on agriculture and fishing, as well as some damage to energy infrastructure.Yagi was the strongest autumn typhoon to strike China since 1949, according to a Xinhua News Agency report citing the China Meteorological Administration. It’s the 11th of the season so far.
The typhoon has caused 11.9 billion yuan of damage to Hainan’s agriculture, with more than half of that in the fishing sector, the provincial government said at a briefing on Sunday, the People’s Daily reported.In northern Vietnam, flooding destroyed over 120,000 hectares of rice and other crops, the VnExpress news website reported, and heavy rains remain a risk. Some 5,000 fruit trees in the provinces of Thai Binh, Hung Yen and the port city of Haiphong were also destroyed, it said.
China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. said on WeChat that its refineries in Hainan had been damaged by the typhoon, although it didn’t mention any impact on production.
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