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Harsh Winter Kills Over 1.5 Mln Livestock In Mongolia
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published February 22, 2024 | 01:00 PM
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ULAN BATOR, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 22nd Feb, 2024) The number of livestock deaths caused by extreme wintry weather has exceeded 1.5 million in Mongolia, the country's State Emergency Commission (SEC) said Thursday.
"As of today, at least 1,527,695 head of livestock have perished due to the dzud across the country," Sainbuyan Amarsaikhan, the country's deputy prime minister and head of the SEC, told a press conference.
"Dzud" is a Mongolian term for a severely cold winter when a large number of livestock die because the ground is frozen or covered by snow.
Over 80 percent of the country has so far been blanketed by snow, according to the country's weather monitoring agency.
As one of the last surviving nomadic countries in the world, Mongolia has recently elevated its disaster preparedness to high alert due to the harsh winter and livestock loss.
The promotion of livestock husbandry is seen as the most viable way to diversify the landlocked country's mining-dependent economy.
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