Floods damage up to 91% minor crops.

ISLAMABAD -- Minor crops including oil-seeds, pulses, vegetables and fruit orchards standing over thousands of hectares destroyed due to recent unprecedented monsoon rains and widespread flooding in the country.

Flash floods destroyed about 55 percent oil seeds crop in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province as the crop was cultivated over 432 acres during current season, said an official in the Ministry of National Food Security and Research.

Talking to reporter here on Friday, he said that out of the total oil seed cultivated areas about 237 acres were damaged in province, where as floods vanished different vegetables cultivated over 938 acres in the province.

Over 2 percent of fruit orchards standing over 98 acres also destroyed, he said adding that 26 percent pulses cultivated over 863 acres were also damaged due to floods.

In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 91 percent of dates were damaged as 2,556 acres area under dates production destroyed due to recent calamity, he said adding that 6 percent of tobacco crop was also damaged.

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