GMS smoke crossing border addressed

(KPL) The member countries of the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) gathered in Vientiane last Thursday to comprehend addressing the smoke crossing border boundary, particularly the smokes produced by the producing procedure of industrial factories and wildfire.

Representatives from the GMS gathered at the fifth meeting hosted by Laos aiming at looking back the achievement of the action plan on monitoring the smoke crossing border in the GMS. Mr Singthong Pathoummady, an assistant Head of the Meteorology and Hydrology Department, who is also in charge of the Meteorology and Earthquake Management Network, said that the GMS would meet every year to discuss on the smoke crossing border caused by ozone layer impact, impacts on environment and human health.

“ Laos has suffered the smoke crossing border from neighbouring countries, he added.

On this matter, each GMS country has made a commitment of giving an advance warning if a country causes air pollution so as to getting others to prepare for prevention and avoid impacts on people’s health.

Mr Singthong went on that severe wildfire in some countries and industrial factories in developing countries were currently producing a lot of smoke causing air pollution.

Some upland rice farmers in Laos have relied on slash-burn-cultivation practices but now large group of upland rice farmers stopped their behaviour for years following the Lao Government pursued a policy on the elimination of slash-and-burn-cultivation. Presently severe wildfire is not a concern because local people nationwide have understood what would happen after the slash-burn-cultivation.

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