Floods Destroy Crops In Pakistan, UN Warns Of Looming Food Crisis | World News

Tattoo, heavy rains and rising floods left wide areas of agricultural land under water and destroyed plants ready to harvest in Pakistan, increased a food crisis and increased inflation concerns. The UN and local farmers issued warnings about the damage scale on Monday.

The largest state of Pakistan and the primary food basket-Northeast East Punjab hit hundreds of villages, schools and health centers. Dawn reported that animals were washed, the crops were destroyed and about 50 people lost their lives and triggered widespread evacuation.

Official figures show that more than 2 million people have been affected when more than 700,000 evacuated. Flood waters are now moving towards the South Indus River and threatening to cause more destruction in Sindh in the coming days.

“This is not normal – monsoons guided by climate change, now bring fear and destruction to the communities in Pakistan,” UN resident and human coordinator Mo Yahya said in an article in X after visiting the affected areas. He said. “Following the flooded rice fields are as stretched as much as the eye can see. Farmers are now encountering for months without products or income until the next planting season.”

“This is just the start- more heavy rains are expected in the coming weeks. As the water flows south, it will threaten more families with displacement and destruction. This is not just another natural disaster; this is climate change,” he said.

Waqar Ahmad, the Secretary General of Pakistan, reiterating the warning, said the disaster floods were three main crops-paddles, sugar cane and sesame seeds. Rizvi, “Rice crop, floods hit the large regions producing rice, especially damaged.” He said. Dawn added that 70 percent of the Duran rice crop was destroyed by the last floods.

Waheed Ahmad, President of Pakistan Fruit and Vegetable Exports Association, warned that floods will trigger food inflation because large amounts of crops and vegetables are destroyed in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. As reported by Dawn, the government called on the tax on the import of vegetables and fruits from Afghanistan and Iran to address potential famine.