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13 Sep 2022 | SERVIR-HKH

Floods in Pakistan threaten meals safety, destroy necessary crops

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Floods have destroyed giant tracts of agricultural land in dozens of districts in Pakistan’s Balochistan, Sindh and Punjab provinces. If hundreds of acres of agricultural land are usually not restored, the nation might quickly face a meals scarcity.

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