The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has planned to donate 600cows and cattle for four cyclone-hit regions in Myanmar to help restart agricultural cultivation, the local Flower News journal quoted the Livestock Breeding Department as reporting Monday.
The four cyclone-hit regions, to be donated with such cows and cattle under the FAO program involving Myanmar Livestock Breeding Association and the UNAID, are Kungyankon, Mawlamyinegyun, Ngaputaw and Phyapon.
The FAO purchased the cows and cattle from lesser-cyclone-hit region of Bago and cyclone-free northern region of Mandalay at a price of between 300,000 Kyats and 400,000 Kyats (between 272 U.S. dollars and 363 dollars) per head for the purpose.
According to another local weekly the Voice, altogether nearly 1,400 draught buffaloes and cows, donated domestically, have been distributed to the cyclone-hit areas for recultivation.
Deadly tropical cyclone Nargis, which occurred over the Bay of Bengal, hit five divisions and states -- Ayeyawaddy, Yangon, Bago,Mon and Kayin on last May 2 and 3, of which Ayeyawaddy and Yangon inflicted the heaviest casualties and massive infrastructural damage.
The storm has killed 84,537 people, leaving 53,836 missing and 19,359 injured according to the latest official death toll.
Altogether 300,000 cows and cattle died in cyclone-hard-hit Ayeyawaddy and Yangon divisions.
Source:Xinhua
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