Fears of severe food crisis in Pakistan: Floods cost billions of dollars

The Dhaka Times Desk The ongoing floods in Pakistan have caused an initial loss of $1 trillion. And because of that, severe food crisis is feared in the country.

The country's planning minister said with this information, nature is behaving so harshly in climate change caused by human activities. So no one can avoid its responsibility. That is why he once again called on the world to help them in this disaster.

About 33.33 million people have been affected by the floods in Pakistan so far, which is more than 15 percent of its total population of 220 million. The country's climate change minister has called the situation a dire 'humanitarian crisis'.

Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal said, as an initial one, the amount of this loss will be at least 100 million dollars. He said, as the amount of damage is coming forward, we fear that the amount will increase. The minister said that news of death is coming every day. This number has now exceeded a thousand. There has been extensive damage to people's homes. So far we have come to know about at least 1 million houses damaged. The worst thing is that people are now wandering the streets losing their livelihood. If you hear about a little food somewhere, everyone is going hungry. He also said that this year's flood will exceed the flood of 2010.

At that time the United Nations also issued its largest disaster relief appeal. He also warned that it may take 5 years to overcome the damage and rehabilitation, reconstruction and acute food shortage may occur within a few days.

Several countries have already responded by sending relief supplies and rescue teams after Pakistan appealed for international aid. On Monday, the Chinese government said it was sending another $300,000 in cash and 25,000 tents as additional humanitarian relief. Earlier, China sent 4000 tents, 50000 blankets and 50000 triples to Pakistan. On Monday, the Canadian government also announced $500,000 in humanitarian aid to help Pakistan deal with flood damage.

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