JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Poppy crop grown over 1000 hectors of land would be eradicated as part of an ongoing eradication campaign in eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Tuesday.
Though it remains unknown how many hectors of land is grown with the banned crop in the province, the provincial counternarcotics director says the plant has been grown on nearly 18000 hectors of land in 13 districts.
The campaign to eradicate the plant was launched two days earlier from the Ghanikhel district, where 175 acres of land was cleared, Mohammad Idrees Safi, told Pajhwok Afghan News . . .
