HO CHI MINH CITY, June 11 (Xinhua) -- The World Bank (WB) approved 310 million U.S. dollars in loan on Saturday to help Vietnam build climate resilience and ensure sustainable livelihoods for 1.2 million people living in nine Mekong Delta provinces affected by climate change.

The approved Mekong Delta Integrated Climate Resilience and Sustainable Livelihoods Project supports better climate-smart planning and improved climate resilience of land and water management practices.

The project will benefit farmers in the upper delta provinces and aquaculture farm and fisher-folk households along the coastal provinces in the southern region.

"Recent extreme weather in the Mekong River Delta, including drought and salinity intrusion, are negatively affecting the lives of the farmers, most of whom are poor," Achim Fock, acting country director for the WB in Vietnam, said.

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