date:Jul 09, 2013
ed large numbers, including farmers, to leave the country and even larger numbers to move from their homes to safer areas within the country.
Many of the means of production, processing and storage of crops have been either damaged or destroyed, such as tractors, harvesters, pumps, irrigation canals, cotton ginneries, and grain silos.
The FAO estimated the wheat crop at 2.4m tonnes, down 15 per cent year on year, on its figures, and significantly below the average of more than 4m tonnes achiev