HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): Farmers and Islamic scholars in western Herat province have welcomed the ban on poppy cultivation in the country but asked officials to provide an alternative to the people.
Some Islamic scholars considered poppy cultivation as forbidden in Islam.
MualviMasoomAzizi, an Islamic scholar in Herat, told Pajhwok Afghan News that millions of addicts in the country were a result of drug cultivation in recent years.
He said that the government’s decree banning poppy cultivation had been one of the expectations of people and society.
On the other hand, Herat farmers want an alternative crop to poppy cultivation . . .
