Pakistan to fight food insecurity with high-tech crop data - In Urdu

Pakistan has launched a state-of-the-art system to help farmers calculate their crop losses to extreme weather more accurately and support the government in tackling hunger and malnutrition.

The National Nutrition Survey 2013 showed that some 60 percent of Pakistan's population is food-insecure - lacking access to adequate supplies of nutritious food - and half of women and children in these households are malnourished.

An estimated 35 percent of child deaths under the age of five in Pakistan are linked to malnutrition.

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