The Flood Effects and Response in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Published:April 1, 2011
Summary
Abstract The recent floods have caused huge losses to human lives as well as to human belongings. The flood has badly affected the dairy potential pockets in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, about 0.15 millions of animals and 0.8 million poultry have been perished in the terrible waves of this July monsoon floods. In the paper floods effects and damages in the context of agriculture and livestock have been...
It is a good appraisal of unheard and unseen disaster faced by the farmers by KPK. Vigilant policy makers always learn lessons from such episodes so that next episode may be less disastrous.
Credit goes to Dr qureshi and his team that he documented and appraised this disaster.
I hope the policy makers will not read it and file it but will base their future policies for disaster management keeping in view what Dr Qureshi and his team pointed out in this paper
Dr. Qureshi and his co-authors deserve all the praise to bring into light of the cost of devastating floods not in human loss but also financial losses due to livestock killing and other issues due to floods, like disease, food loss, destruction of property, etc.