Sugar, Wheat, Rice Worth $2.9 Billion Ruined by Pakistan Floods

Pakistan’s deadliest floods in its history damaged more than a million acres of sugar cane, cotton and rice fields and caused 250 billion rupees ($2.9 billion) of agricultural losses, a farmers’ group said.

Floodwaters ravaged 700,000 acres of planted cotton, and 200,000 acres each of rice and cane, Mohammed Ibrahim Moghul, chairman of Agri Forum Pakistan, said by phone. Rains also destroyed 500,000 metric tons of wheat, 300,000 acres of animal fodder and 100,000 head of livestock, he said.