AIBAK (Pajhwok): The pistachio yield has decreased by 76 percent in northern Samangan province this year, local officials said on Sunday.
Mohammad Rahman Arghandiwal, the director of agriculture, told Pajhwok Afghan News a survey by his department showed four percent of pistachio trees had produced the fruit in 2019, compared with 17 percent in the previous year.
He cited a lack of rain at the cultivation time and climate change as major factors behind the falling pistachio yield.
He informed 42 hectares of pistachio forests . . .
