Instead, record monsoon rains since late June, amplified by dam releases from India, have submerged large swathes of Punjab and Sindh. A report from agricultural monitoring initiative GEOGLAM estimates at least 220,000 hectares of rice fields flooded between August 1 and September 16. In Punjab, 1.8 million acres of farmland have been inundated, according to the Provincial Disaster Management Authority. He estimates at least a tenth of the country’s crops are destroyed, with vegetable losses topping 90% in some districts. The timing is perilous: Pakistan is about to sow wheat, the crop that provides nearly half of the country’s caloric intake.