Flood-hit Pakistan bets on high-tech tools to protect farms and forests

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is turning to advanced technologies and innovative agricultural practices to fight back climate change, a parliamentary panel was informed on Monday, amid widespread death and destruction from monsoon rains, glacial bursts, floods and other similar incidents. Since late June, nearly 1,000 people have lost their lives in these incidents, according to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). The northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) accounts for 504 of these deaths, while floods have caused widescale economic losses in the breadbasket Punjab province.

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