YANGON, July 4 (Xinhua) -- The Myanmar authorities are pleading for more donations for the resettlement of storm survivors, outlining urgently-needed items for well-wishers to make the move individually or in groups.

    According to Friday's official newspaper New Light of Myanmar, low-cost house, fishing boat, powered tiller and fertilizer are among the urgently-need items invited for increased donation.

    Myanmar is reclaiming land plots in the cyclone-hit areas and planning to build up to 100,000 low-cost provisional housings for homeless storm victims, local reports said.

    These low-cost housings at 500,000 to 600,000 Kyats (450 to 540U.S. dollars) each will be constructed for the surviving villagers in Ayeyawaddy delta region's Laputta, Bogalay, Dedaye and Phyapon.

    A total of 30 private companies have been assigned by the government's National Disaster Preparedness Central Committee to undertake reconstruction work in 17 disaster-affected areas in Ayeyawaddy and Yangon divisions.

    Besides, a Japan Platform Foundation is reported to also help build 2,500 to 3,000 houses for Myanmar cyclone victims in the two divisions and the project will be implemented with the cooperation of the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry.

    Meanwhile, farmers in cyclone-hard-hit areas such as Bogalay, Laputta, Ngaputtaw, Mawlamyinegyun, Phyapon and Dedaye in the Ayeyawaddy delta and Kungyangon in Yangon division have started ploughing monsoon paddy after paddy strains and draught-cattle-substitute powered tillers were provided to the local farmers.

    The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has led a plan to donate 600 cows and cattle for the cyclone-hit regions to help restart agricultural cultivation.

    The FAO purchased the cows and cattle from lesser-cyclone-hit region of Bago and cyclone-free northern region of Mandalay at a price of between 300,000 Kyats and 400,000 Kyats (between 272 U.S. dollars and 363 dollars) per head for the purpose.

    According to local reports, altogether nearly 1,400 draught buffaloes and cows, donated domestically, have been distributed to the cyclone-hit areas for re-cultivation.

    These cattle were supplied by well wishers from other divisions and states of Kayin, Mon, Bago, Rakhine, Shan.

    According to earlier statistics, the Nargis had caused destruction with 980,000 hectares of paddy which accounted for 10 percent of Myanmar's paddy cultivated area or a loss of 1.9 million tons of rice.

    The disaster also killed 173,000 heads of draught cattle.

    In addition, the Livestock Breeding and Fisheries Association are building over 9,000 powered vessels to seven cyclone-hit townships for survived fishermen to restart their fishery undertakings.

    The seven townships, where fishery works are mostly done, are Dedaye, Phyapon, Myaungmya, Bogalay, Latputta, Ngaputaw and Mawlamyinegyun.

    In order to help resettle the local fishermen, the association has hired 700 other fishery-related workers from other divisions and states of Bago, Mandalay, Rakhine, Sagaing, Mon and Tanintharyi to build the vessels in these townships.

    According to official statistics, in early May's cyclone storm,a total of 168 ships and 10,704 boats were destroyed.

    Fishery, along with agriculture, stood the most hard-hit sector caused by Nargis in the Ayeyawaddy delta region. The loss with the marine sector stood the second after paddy cultivation sector.

    According to earlier figures of the fisheries department, more than 20,000 fishery workers were assessed to have been killed in the cyclone storm. Of the victims, the Ayeyawaddy division's Laputta township alone accounted for 13,000.

    Fish and prawn breeding ponds in Yangon division's Twantay, Kayan and Kyauktan townships as well as those in Ayeyawaddy division's Dedaye township were much destroyed by the storm Nargis.

    Myanmar's offshore fishery undertakings are mostly done in Ayeyawaddy and Yangon divisions.

    Myanmar has announced that the first phase of the country's post-disaster restoration work -- rescue and relief, has finished up to a certain extent and it has now entered into a second phase of resettlement and reconstruction.

    Deadly tropical cyclone Nargis, which occurred over the Bay of Bengal, hit five divisions and states -- Ayeyawaddy, Yangon, Bago,Mon and Kayin on last May 2 and 3, of which Ayeyawaddy and Yangon inflicted the heaviest casualties and massive infrastructural damage.

    The storm has killed 84,537 people, leaving 53,836 missing and 19,359 injured according to the latest official death toll.