Dhaka – A devastating flooding that swept parts of Bangladesh’s eastern districts during the last monsoon has caused some 2,327 crores taka along in the fisheries and livestock sector in the South Asian country, an adviser to the interim administration said on Wednesday.
The flooding during the month of August caused a huge loss to the agriculture and also in the fisheries and livestock across the country, said Fisheries and Livestock Affairs Adviser Farida Akhter.
The loss in fisheries sector was 1,899 crore taka while it was 428 crore taka in the livestock sector,” said fisheries and livestock adviser Farida Akhter.
The fisheries and livestock adviser said this while revealing the success in the first 100 days of the present interim government at a press conference at her office in Dhaka.
Some 197,166 ponds and hatcheries along with 107,517 metric tons of fishes and shrimp and 44 crore fish-fries in 88 upazilas under 13 districts were damaged in the flooding.
In livestock sector, the estimated accumulated loss was 428 crore where 2.60 lakh cattle heads, 8,000 buffaloes, 93,000 goats, 10,000 sheep, 34.21 lakh poultry, 4.60 lakh duck have died in the floods.
Moreover, the floods also caused death of 39,000 cattle, 16,000 goats, 21 lakh poultry flocks, 2 lakh duck, the adviser told the press briefing.
Even the floods also affected nearly 782,000 families of, according to a ministry release.
Farida Akhter said the Department of Livestock Services (DLS) has distributed 220 metric tons of cereal animal feed, 75 MT straw, 357 MT silage and 60,000 grass cutters while the distribution of animal feed among 12,000 farmers by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) remains under way.
Even the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief has distributed Taka 35 lakh among the farmers of the flood affected areas for purchasing animal feed.
The FAO has taken a programme to give 75kg cattle feed to each of 8,233 small farmers.
The government has also distributed fish fries among the fisheries farmers at cheaper rates from the government fish production hatcheries.
The flood killed more than 50 people.
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