JALALABAD (Pajhwok): The Nangarhar Canal Department supplies 2.8 tonnes of cucumber from its greenhouses daily to the market, an official said on Wednesday.
Canal Department Director Maulvi Ghulam Rahman Kazeem said as many as 20 greenhouses had been rehabilitated under their supervision and most them started producing yield.
He said vegetables grown in these greenhouses have met to some extent provincial vegetable demand. More efforts would be made to expand the network of greenhouses.
Local official plan to build more than 1,000 greenhouses in Nangarhar to meet local vegetable demand and create work opportunities for people.
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