Saturday, February 11, 2012
- Imran accuses PM of putting system at stake
- Uzbek man admits plot to kill Obama
- Anonymous takes down CIA website
- PM should write letter to Swiss authorities: Qureshi
- US to help Pakistan boosts agriculture: Munter
- One more die of drug reaction, toll reaches 120
- Four children burnt to death in Multan
- Lahore: Shopping centre caught fire in Gulberg
- Australia beat Sri Lanka by 5 runs, remain unbeaten in tri-series
- Blasts, firing near PTIs rally leave 7 injured in Swabi
Wheat planting at risk in flooded Pakistan: UN's food agency
The upcoming wheat planting season is at risk in Pakistan after devastating floods destroyed more than 0.5 million tonnes of seed stocks in Asia's third-largest wheat producer, the U.N.'s food agency said on Wednesday. Pakistan's worst floods in decades have damaged 3.6 million hectares of standing maize, rice, cotton and sugar cane, the Food and Agriculture Organisation said in a statement, adding that an estimated 1.2 million livestock and 6 million poultry were lost in the flooding.
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