South Korea said Thursday it will redouble efforts to help restore local farms hit hard by the season's eighth typhoon, Typhoon Bavi, Yonhap News Agency reported. The combined size of farms ravaged by the typhoon was estimated at 513 hectares, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. A total of 162 hectares of fruit orchards were damaged, while 12 hectares of farms were flooded, it added. The tropical storm arrived in the Korean peninsula on Wednesday and passed through the Yellow Sea before moving northward to North Korea on the day. Typhoon advisories that had been issued across the country have all been lifted. Power disruptions were reported at more than 1,600 houses in the southern region, including Jeju and South Chungcheong Province. One fish farm in the coastal town of Taean, South Chungcheong Province, reported mass deaths of flatfish due to the disruption.
