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Helicopters carry Nepal harvest to markets after flood cuts road

WFP began flying about 8,000 kilograms of potatoes and cabbage from Gre to Bidur in Nepal on October 9, a UN story published on October 16 reported.

Haneen News Editorial Team · (Asia/Jerusalem)

Archive image: Helicopter flying near Tengboche in Nepal’s mountains. It does not depict the current event.
Archive image: Helicopter flying near Tengboche in Nepal’s mountains. It does not depict the current event.

WFP began flying about 8,000 kilograms of potatoes and cabbage from Gre to Bidur in Nepal on October 9, a UN story published on October 16 reported.

Floods had severed farmers’ road to market, prompting preparation of a helipad and training for loading teams. Restoring the bridge and road remains essential for lasting recovery, because air transport has not moved the entire waiting harvest.

Archive image: Helicopter flying near Tengboche in Nepal’s mountains. It does not depict the current event.

Source: unsdg.un.org.

Photo credit: Vyacheslav Argenberg.

Image on Wikimedia Commons — CC BY 4.0. Resized and converted to WebP.

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