80 percent of banana, dates, cotton crops destroyed by floods

Due to the floods, 80 percent of banana, dates, chilli, sugar cane and especially cotton crop (equivalent of 2.3 million bales destroyed), and a total of 690,000 houses have been destroyed.

In order to apprise representatives of media about the current situation in the flood affected areas and initiatives of federal government and the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) in providing rescue and relief to the affected population, the Chairman NDMA, Dr Zafar Qadir conducted a press briefing.