Foreign NGO help for Mizoram

"Several charitable institutions, moved by the distress of Mizo villagers in the aftermath of the crop loss, will mobilise food relief for them."

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Acute food shortage in Mizoram villages

By Sushanta Talukdar

"Residents of this remote village in Mizoram’s Serchhip district, about 90 km off capital city Aizawl, are facing food shortage of the worst kind, after hordes of rats destroyed their jhum paddy and other crops for the second successive year."

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India quakes in the year of the rats

By Sudha Ramachandran

"India's armed forces, which have been battling insurgents in the northeast for over six decades, are now engaged with another enemy - rats. The rat population in the northeastern states of Mizoram and Manipur - the two states bordering Myanmar - has witnessed a massive growth. With rats destroying crops and devouring grain, the threat of famine looms over the region. Soldiers deployed in the area to fight insurgents are being called in to help the civilian administration tackle the impending crisis."

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Mizoram faces famine after plague of rats

By Biswajyoti Das

"About a million people in Mizoram are facing famine after a plague of rats ate the region's entire paddy crop, officials and aid agencies said on Monday."

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Rodent havoc triggers food crisis in Mizoram

"Nearly 1,00,000 people are going hungry as a largely unreported crisis unfolds in Mizoram following bamboo flowering, a phenomenon that occurs in the northeast every 48 years, according to ActionAid, an international anti-poverty agency."

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