Pakistani flood hit farmers get back to work

AP Television Zakhi Kona, Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa Province, Pakistan - November 3, 2010 1. Wide of farmer ploughing field 2. Close of seeds going into plough 3. Close of plough blade in earth 4. Close of seeds in ground 5. Mid, low angle of oxen pulling plough 6. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Kalam Khan, Farmer: "These seeds are good quality, and produce more crops for us. When the seeds are good quality, it grows into a seedling fast. When the seed is not good quality then we plant it and the seedlings spoil, and our harvest is less." 7. Wide of oxen ploughing with bag of seed in foreground 8. Mid of farmer scooping seeds from aid sack into his own container 9. Close of seeds in farmer's hand 10. Wide of field showing oxen ploughing 11. Mid of tractor in field 12. Close of children riding on back of tractor plough 13. Wide of tractor 14. Mid, over the shoulder shot of farmer sowing seeds in field 15. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Saeed Afzal, Farmer: "This whole area was flooded. The flood waters hit our fields and there was commotion in the whole area, damaging the soil, so that is why I am sowing by hand." 16. Wide of Afzal in field AP Television Banda Mullah Khan, Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa Province, Pakistan - November 3, 2010 17. Mid of farmers taking sacks of seeds in wheelbarrow 18. Close of sign showing details of seeds in aid package (wheat, urea, fertiliser, tomato seeds, turnip, beans) 19. Mid, low angle of workers loading aid sacks onto wheelbarrow 20. Close of USAID-branded sack of wheat aid 21. Mid of workers unloading aid sacks 22. SOUNDBITE (English) Naimat Ullah, UN Food and Agriculture Administration (FAO) Provincial Coordinator: "We are hoping that these people actually needed the seeds, and it is very timely being distributed, you can see that the distribution is ongoing to these farmers. So when they get these inputs, we have events and we have evidence where we have seen then the cultivation already started by these farmers, and the feedback from the farmer is very good." 23. Wide, top shot of seed distribution to farmers 24. Mid of farmer with sacks on wheelbarrow 25. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Wala Jan, Farmer and Widow: "I took the seeds to sow in my field. I spent 15-hundred rupees (18 US dollars) to hire a tractor to plough my field. My husband has died, and one of my children is disabled, the other is unmarried. Due to the floods all the rooms in my house have collapsed. I have no shelter, and I am surviving under the sky." 26. Mid of farmers sitting near sacks of aid as wheelbarrow is dumped out 27. Mid of farmers pushing wheelbarrow 28. Wide street scene of Banda Mullah Khan AP Television Islamabad, Pakistan - November 3, 2010 18. Mid, set up shot of UN Food and Agriculture Administration (FAO) official +++AUDIO AS INCOMING +++ 19. SOUNDBITE (English) Angus Graham, FAO official: "In these floods, many of the farmers had planted their crops, and these include, depending on the areas, principally cotton crops, oil seed crops, vegetable crops, some of the staple crops. And they had been washed away, not only their crops but also their seeds for the next season which is the season which is planting now. As soon as the plants mature and reach harvest, which should be around April to June, they will receive another harvest. Not only will they be able to harvest the vegetables and the wheat seeds which have been delivered recently, they will also have good quality seed for the next time they will have to plant." AP Television Zakhi Kona, Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa Province, Pakistan - November 3, 2010 20. Wide, low angle of oxen ploughing field LEAD IN: STORYLINE: In the next field, children bounce on the back of a tractor turning soil. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/4dd775233da3ed868e6864dff34b7ced Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork