Karachi:
The in progress torrential rains and increasing floods have flooded large agricultural land and destroys crops ready to achieve through Pakistan, ceasing fears of a food crisis and inflation, the UN and the producers warned on Monday.
The unleashed floods struck northeast of Punjab, the largest province and food basket in the country last week, submerging hundreds of villages, schools and health centers, washing cattle and destroying crops, in addition to killing around 50 people and triggering evacuations.
The growing floods have so far affected more than 2 million people, in overtime to the evacuation of more than 700,000 people, according to official statistics.
Water flows further south to fall into the powerful Industry river and is afraid of wreaking havoc in the southern Sindh province in the coming days.
“It is not normal, however, it becomes the new normal. The monsoons, motivated by climate change, now bring fear and devastation to the communities of Pakistan,” said Mo Yahya, resident of the United Nations and humanitarian coordinator, in an article on American Social Media X society, after having visited the areas of the flood.
“Flooded rice fields extend until the eye can see. Farmers are now facing months without cultures or income until the next planting season,” he said, while publishing a video of flooded agricultural land in the Hafizabad district.
“This is only the beginning – more intense rains are expected during the weeks of com -id. While water flows further south, it will threaten more families with displacement and destruction,” added Yahya.
“It’s not just another natural disaster; it’s #Climatechange.”
By approving the warning, Waqar Ahmad, the secretary general of the Kisan Board of Pakistan, a national farmers’ body, said that catastrophic floods had destroyed the three main rice harvests, sugar cane and sesame (seeds rich in oil) through Punjab.
“The rice harvest has particularly wreaked havoc because the floods hit the main rice producing districts,” Ricevi told Anadolu.
According to him, 70% of the standing rice harvest was destroyed by the last floods.
