LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): Farmers who previously sowed wheat crop have this year cultivated poppy plant in their fields in southern Helmand province due to increasing insecurity, an agriculture official said on Monday.
Helmand is the most insecure province of Afghanistan and recently its security situation has considerably worsened.
Shah Mohammad, a senior official at the provincial agriculture, irrigation and livestock department, told Pajhwok Afghan News that many residents of the province had cultivated poppy crop instead of wheat this year . . .
