YANGON, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) -- The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations will extend the period of its Myanmar cyclone aid project for another six months to run until next year, Flower News reported Sunday.

    Some 33.5 million U.S. dollars of fund for the extended project are being sought, the FAO resident representative was quoted as saying.

    The extended project is designed to benefit 50,000 lesser-land-owned and 100,000 landless storm-survived households, the sources said, adding that the fund will further help develop agriculture, livestock breeding and forestry undertakings locally until next summer.

    In July this year after May storm, the FAO agreed to provide emergency relief aid supplies for an initial six-month period to storm survivors in two cyclone-hard-hit regions of Ayeyawaddy and Yangon for the resumption of their agricultural and fishery production, according to earlier local report quoting the Myanmar Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation.

    The FAO also donated 600 cattle for four cyclone-hit areas of Kungyankon, Mawlamyinegyun, Ngaputaw and Phyapon to help restart agricultural cultivation there, the Livestock Breeding Department said.

    The FAO-donated cattle were purchased from lesser-cyclone-hit region of Bago and cyclone-free northern region of Mandalay, it added.

    Deadly tropical cyclone Nargis, which occurred over the Bay of Bengal, hit five divisions and states -- Ayeyawaddy, Yangon, Bago,Mon and Kayin on May 2 and 3, of which Ayeyawaddy and Yangon inflicted the heaviest casualties and massive infrastructural damage.

    The storm has killed 84,537 people, leaving 53,836 missing and 19,359 injured according to official death toll.

    Altogether 300,000 cattle died in cyclone-hard-hit Ayeyawaddy and Yangon divisions.