(26 Sep 2022)
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Nasirabad, Balochistan - 12 September 2022
1. Various aerials of flooded fields around villages ++MUTE++
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Dasht, Mastung district, Balochistan - 16 September 2022
2. Various of Flooded apple orchard and rotten apples sitting in flood water.
3. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Hameed Ali Khokar, Secretary Agriculture, Baluchistan Province:
"Approximately 700,000 acres of agricultural land being destroyed due to the rains and flooding, 700,000 means our fall season crops like rice and cotton are completely destroyed, especially in Nasirabad sector, and in the orchard sector we have lost 50 percent of production."
4. Rotten apples sitting in flood water
5. Tracking shot of apple tree and rotten apples on ground ++MUTE++
6. Various of rotten apples on ground
7. Mohammad Ramzan owner of apple orchard destroyed in rains and flooding passing in front of camera with his relatives
8. SOUNDBITE (Brahvi) Mohammad Ramzan, Local landlord:
"We lost almost everything like apples, tomato and vegetables crops, approximately I lost half a million rupees ($23,000) this year, I lost my house and eight tube wells too in flood."
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Khairpur Sindh - 16 September 2022
9. Various of Arz Mohammad, father of five children, small farmer, who has four acres of agriculture land in Khairpur, taking wood out of his house damaged by rains and floodwaters
10. Mohammad's children sitting on a charpoy
11. Mohammad leaving for his destroyed cotton farm
12. Mohammad going towards his farm on his motorbike
13. Left pan shot of Mohammad's destroyed cotton crop
14. Mohammad examining his cotton crop destroyed by floodwaters
15. Close of rotten cotton crop
16. SOUNDBITE (Sindhi) Arz Mohammad, farmer:
"These rains have destroyed everything. All the cotton has been destroyed. The creditors are demanding their money back, the tractor owner, the seed seller, the insecticide seller. I have nothing. How can I repay them? The house has collapsed. Even we have nothing to eat."
17. Shot of Altaf Hussain Marri, a major grower who owns 400 acres of land and works as the General Secretary of Abadgar Association pointing towards his flooded agriculture land."
18. Various of date orchard with flooded water
19. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Altaf Hussain Marri, General Secretary of Abadgar Association:
"We pinned our hopes on cotton. That is gone. In the coming months if we fail to grow wheat – now we have wheat to eat - but next year we might not have even wheat to eat. It will create food insecurity in the country. The poor will suffer a lot. There will be no flour."
20. Tracking of flooded date orchards
21. Various of flooded sugarcane farm
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Islamabad - 19 September 2022
22. Pakistan Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal talking to Associated Press reporter
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Ahsan Iqbal, Pakistan Minister for Planning and Development:
"More than half of the cotton crop our national produce is lost, Similarly rice crop is lost, Sindh is the largest producer of vegetables for the Pakistani markets, and vegetables, tomatoes and onions are lost."
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Khairpur Sindh - 16 September 2022
24. Various of dates being dried
25. Various of destroyed dates lying on the side of the road
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Islamabad - 19 September 2022
26. SOUNDBITE (English) Ahsan Iqbal, Pakistan Minister for Planning and Development:
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Dasht, Mastung district, Balochistan - 16 September 2022
27. Aerial tracking shot of flooded apple orchard ++MUTE++
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