The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations will provide more emergency relief aid supplies to storm survivors in two cyclone-hard-hit regions, the state newspaper New Light of Myanmar reported Wednesday.
The FAO's emergency aid project, which will help storm survivors in Yangon and Ayeyawaddy divisions with the resumption of their agricultural and fishery production, was signed between the UN agency and the Myanmar Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation, the report said.
The FAO has earlier planned to donate 600 cows and cattle for four cyclone-hit areas in Myanmar to help restart agricultural cultivation, according to the Livestock Breeding Department.
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 for the donation.
According to other local reports, altogether nearly 1,400 domestically-donated draught buffaloes and cows have been distributed to the cyclone-hit areas for recultivation.
These cattle were supplied by well wishers from other divisions and states of Kayin, Mon, Bago, Rakhine, Shan.
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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