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Over 760,000 Livestock Killed amid Heavy Downpours

Written: 2024-07-13 13:40:53Updated: 2024-07-13 13:59:51

Over 760,000 Livestock Killed amid Heavy Downpours

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Over 760-thousand livestock were killed due to heavy downpours around the country earlier this week.

According to the agriculture ministry as of 6 p.m. Friday, 767-thousand livestock had died due to the rainfall from Sunday through Wednesday, of which 764-thousand-100 were poultry, 650 pigs and 41 cattle.

Some 126-thousand square meters of cattle shed, pigpen and facilities were damaged, most of them in South Chungcheong Province, followed by North Chungcheong and North Jeolla provinces.

As of 6 p.m. Friday, 107-point-56 million square meters of crops were inundated, which is equivalent to about 15-thousand football fields.

Seventy-five-point-44 million square meters of affected crops were in South Chungcheong Province, followed by 17-point-59 million square meters in North Gyeongsang and eleven-point-92 square meters in North Jeolla.

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