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Large losses in the farming sector
Pakistan
Monday 13 September 2010
FJ
Flooded farms and ravaged harvests everywhere.
Damages caused by the floods is unprecedented for the farming sector.
The last estimations, which concern only half of the districts touched by the floods, indicate 3,6 million hectares of damaged harvests.
On a national scale, the damage would concern millions of hectares of arable, including the harvests like rice, corns, orchards and vegetables.
Rescuers compare the extent of damages with a tsunami of power 10. The evaluation of the damages is in progress. Losses are going to affect millions of persons and all the farming sector of Pakistan.
Source: daily times
