AIBACK (Pajhwok): Drought has affected landowners and livestock farmers in northern Samangan province; where 40 percent of the wheat crop on rain-fed lands has been damaged and pastures have gone dry.
Due to a shortage of fodder across the province, livestock prices have fallen by 30 percent, complain farmers.
Agriculture Director Mohammad Rahman Arghandiwal said growers had sown wheat on 10,000 hectares of irrigated land and 80,000 hectares of rain-fed land in the province this year.
As a result of lack of rainfall, 40 percent of the wheat crop in rain-fed lands had been harmed . . .
