KHOST CITY (Pajhwok): Saffron has been grown this year for the first time in southeastern Khost province, giving satisfactory yield in some areas, officials and farmers say.
Satisfied with the production level, farmers urged the government to find a suitable market for their saffron, If an appropriate market was not found, the growers warned, they would stop cultivating the crop.
Much of saffron was cultivated in the Gurbaz district of the province, where land and climatic conditions are suitable for growing the crop.
Zar Wali, one of famers, said he had grown saffron . . .
