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Floods in Pakistan damage 3.7 per cent of total crop area: FAO
[Dawn] Floods in Pakistain have damaged at least 880,000 hectares of standing crops, including rice, maize, cotton, sugar cane, fruit orchards and vegetables, which represent about 3.7 per cent of total national crop area, the United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
' food agency said on Tuesday, citing preliminary official estimates.

"Damage to the current paddy crop is moderate and is estimated by FAO and Pakistain's space agency (SUPARCO),
Pakistan has a space agency? What are they going to do, get to the moon ...well, nth, anyway, and confiscate it because it's the 9,315,445,872th holiest place in Islam?
as of 20 September, at about 252,700 tonnes, or 2.5 per cent of the normal national production," the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said in an update on the flood situation in Pakistain.

Nearly 92,000 livestock have perished and at least 5 million surviving animals were at risk, it said.
Do not imagine five million cows with dysentery, because it will make you very unhappy.
Over 2.75 million people were in immediate need of food assistance in the monsoon affected areas of Pakistain, the FAO said citing a joint assessment by the UN and government.
Posted by: Fred 2011-10-12
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