JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Farmers in eastern Nangarhar province on Saturday asked the government to increase tax on vegetable imports to improve the market of domestically produced crops.
The farmers say they work for months in fields growing vegetables, but their harvests are sold at low prices in the market due to high imports of the same from neighboring countries.
Malak Muhabbat Khan, a farmer in Surkh Rod district of Nangarhar, said that high prices of fertilizer and low rates of vegetables they grow had discouraged them.
“A farmer works for months to grow vegetables in a season but when they ripe . . .
