AIBAK (Pajhwok): More than 15,000 hectares of farmland has been cleared of grasshoppers in northern Samangan province, local officials said on Sunday.
Plants Protection Manager at Agriculture and Livestock Department Gulabuddin Ghayasi told Pajhwok Afghan News an anti-locust campaign, launched on April 1, would continue for 75 days or Jun 25.
He said six teams involving 90 workers were fighting against the grasshoppers in parts of the Taikhonak area of the provincial capital and Hazrat Sultan and Dara-I-Sauf districts.
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