The World Food Program (WFP) of the United Nations will continue its ration aid supply to survivors in Myanmar's cyclone-hardest-hit area of Laputta in the Ayeyawaddy delta region until September, a local weekly reported Sunday.
The WFP has been distributing the ration aid supply to the area among others since late May in cooperation with the UN Development Program (UNDP) and some international non-governmental organizations after the cyclone storm hit Myanmar in early May, the Voice quoted officials of the resident UNDP as saying.
A total of 29,000 survived population of nine village tracts out of 50 in Laputta have been benefited by the UN program, the report added.
Laputta township suffered the biggest damage out of those in the Ayeyawaddy delta, a preliminary assessment of a tripartite core group involving the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Myanmar and the U.N. was quoted as saying.
Due to the storm, over one million acres (405,000 hectares) of farmland in seven townships in Ayeyawaddy division, three in Yangon division, two in Bago division and three in the Mon state were flooded by sea water with more than 200,000 cows and cattle killed, according to the report.
The deadly 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 infrastructure damage.
Myanmar estimated the damage and losses caused by the storm at 10.67 billion U.S. dollars with 5.5 million people affected.
The storm has killed 84,537 people and left 53,836 missing and 19,359 injured, according to the latest official death toll.
Source: Xinhua
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