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Cyclone Ditwah kills 35,000 cattle in Sri Lanka, 2,000 pigs
500,000 layer chicks and 1.4 million broilers also killed
Summary
ECONOMYNEXT - Cyclone Ditwah has killed 35,000 cattle and 2,000 pigs in Sri Lanka, Director of the Department of Animal Husbandry and Health K K Sarath said. Sri Lanka has a herd around two million head of cattle Sarath said speaking on Sri Lanka's Newsfirst television. The cyclone had also killed around 500,000 layer chicks and 1.4 to 1.5 million broiler chicks, he said.
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People
- K K Sarath
Organisations
- Department of Animal Husbandry and Health
- Disaster Management Centre
Places
- Sri Lanka2
- Kandy District
- Nuwara Eliya
- Badulla
- Colombo
- Kegalle
- Kandy
Keywords
- cyclone2
- ditwah2
- according
- increased
- increases
- broilers
- cattle
- chicks
- death
- kills
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