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 Business News | November 2007 
Tabasco Union Says 100,000 Head Of Cattle Affected By Flood
 Maja Wallengren - Dow Jones
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 |  | As to how much damage has been done and how many head of cattle have died, at this time nobody knows because we can't even get into the areas yet since they are still under water.
- Arturo Canadero |  | |
Mexico City - Cattle farmers in the Mexican state of Tabasco on Friday said 150,000 hectares of grassland and pastures remained under water after two weeks of severe flooding which have covered more than 80% of the Gulf Coast state.
The Tabasco Regional Cattle Union said that members of the union had yet to get access to the area in order to assess damage, but pictures in local news and television showed fields covered with dead animals that had drowned in the floods.
"As to how much damage has been done and how many head of cattle have died, at this time nobody knows because we can't even get into the areas yet since they are still under water," said Arturo Canadero, a bord member for the union.
"What we know is that 150,000 hectares of grassland used for cattle have been flooded and there is an estimated 100,000 head of bovine cattle in the area affected," Canadero told Dow Jones Newswires by telephone from the flood-hit state.
An estimated 30% of Tabasco's population of about 2.0 million people depend on agricultural jobs or subsistence farming for their survival, with 40% of the population living in farm areas, according to official state figures.
Local Tabasco government officials earlier this week said 100% of the state's agricultural crops had been destroyed including 40,833 hectares of cocoa, 27,481 hectares of sugar cane and 60,344 hectares of grains crops, mostly corn, but also including some sorghum and rice.
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