in some instances, even a deadly threat to humans. the bbc s nitin srivastava reports from rural uttar pradesh in northern india. widowed a few months ago, this woman had stopped eating or interacting with family. her 55 year old husband was killed by a stray cow outside his home. translation: his face | was smashed, intestines ruptured and chest crushed. he died much before we reached the hospital. it was a very painful death. india has a cattle population of more than 200 million, which does not include almost five million stray cows, multiplying fast. the issue of roaming cows is a big political issue here. riding high on the support of majority hindus, in 2017 india s ruling pjp came back to power
"India has only four per cent water share of the world s fresh rainwater resources. So, there is a basic necessity to save, reuse and repurpose. When India became independent, the availability of water was 5,000 litres per capita now it has become 1,100 litres. There is a basic decline in availability of water due to human and cattle population growth," Prakash Javadekar said.
hello, this is by far the worst outbreak this country has ever seen. at this point, 3.4 million animals have actually been killed. 30% of the swine population in this country has been culled. 4% of the cattle population has been culled. and the rest have had to be vaccinated. there is a lot of controversy here. many farmers not happy. they believe that the government did not act quickly enough at the beginning, at the end of november when this outbreak first sparked and they also don t believe they have done enough to try and contain the outbreak. it s still not under control at this point. i did speak to the agricultural minister here in south korea and he hoped that it could be contained by early march. now, farmers currently on their second round of vaccinations but there s also concern that these vaccinations will not help at this point. so farmers really are very angry that they believe the government has not done enough and also