WEB DESK
Uninterrupted rain and flood has destroyed approximately 1.5 million heads of livestock (goats, sheep, cows, buffaloes, etc.) were killed in the natural disaster putting the food security of the country at risk.
As per media reports nearly 3 million acres (8,300 square km) of agricultural lands were submerged which is likely to cause 20% reduction in agricultural production this year.
Rough estimates suggest agriculture damage in this year’s floods and rains will cross the Rs750 billion mark.
National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) officials worry the scope of disaster and volume of destruction may be larger than what is being perceived, perhaps may even break previous records of four floods that impacted Pakistan since 2004.
“Approximately 0.3 million acres of rice fields, 0.6 million acres of cotton crops, 0.3 million acres of sugar cane crops, and 0.6 million of corn, maize, beans, pepper, red gram, pulses and animal fodder fields were spoiled in the floods.”
The initial findings also revealed that over 0.5 tonnes of wheat stockpile were also spoiled by floodwaters.
