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Quoted: “We can’t get back all that we lost"


December 7, 2010
By The IRC

Famer Obaid Ullah with wheat seeds he received from the IRC.

Photo: Selena Marr/The IRC

Race against time

  • Farmers including Obaid Ullah, 44, (center) happily load their wheat seeds onto a cart to take them to their fields for planting the next day. Failure to plant would mean another year without crops, food and income.
  • Haji Khan, 50, (right) helps Obaid Ullah (center) load a bag of wheat seeds onto a wheelbarrow. Khan says that he had carefully saved seeds from previous crops, but that they had all washed away in the floods. "These seeds make me very happy," he says.
  • Loading wheat seeds onto a cart to take to home. The IRC is also providing Khan, Ullah and other farmers in the area with 12,000 bags of fertilizer.
  • Azra (in red) and her friends watch as their fathers collect the wheat seeds for planting. These seeds will grow into much needed crops that will provide income for many families, Azra says with a hopeful smile.
  • Obaid Ullah with his wheat seeds.
Launch Slideshow

Farmers in flood ravaged Pakistan are in a race against time to plough fields and sow seeds before the end of the winter planting season.  Failure to plant will mean another year without crops, food and income. In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, the IRC is rushing to provide some 3,500 farmers with 300 tons of seeds.

 
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“We can’t get back all that we lost. But these seeds and the crops that will grow from them will help us recover from the floods. I thank the IRC for this assistance.”


- Obaid Ullah, one of some 3,500 farmers in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province the IRC is providing with 300 tons of seeds after devastating floods washed away or ruined their own supplies. Read more about how the the IRC is racing to help Ullah and other farmers sow their crops before the end of the winter planting season.

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