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India floods: fears grow for farmland devastated in Uttarakhand

2013-08-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: More than a month after flash floods in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand in north India left 1,000 dead and 6,000 missing, the government has yet to release a full agricultural impact assessment, triggering fears about the extent of damage to farmland. Questions remain as to how soon soil restoration efforts will bear fruit and when the farm economy, which accounted for just under 11% of the state's $160bn (105bn) gross domestic product in 2012-13, will be restored. Heavy flooding on 15 and...

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