MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): Farmers have grown poppy crop in their fields for a second year in northern Balkh province, which once remained poppy-free for eight years.
Poppy cultivation has increased by several times in some districts of the province.
Balkh farmers say the government has assured them their poppy farms would be not destroyed. On the other hand, the government says it plan to eradicate poppy is unalterable.
Farmers in Balkh district resumed poppy growing two years back. Mohammad Younas, a resident of Wazirabad area of the district, told Pajhwok Afghan . . .
