KUNDUZ CITY (Pajhwok): A number of farmers in northern Kunduz province complain their wheat crop on thousands of hectares of rain-fed lands has been damaged by a prolonged drought.
Expecting little wheat yield this year, growers also voiced concern at financial problems. They are urging the government to help affected farmers.
Local officials, meanwhile, acknowledge that rain-fed crops had been hit hard by drought. This year, they estimate, up to 80 percent of rain-fed lands will not any yield.
Abdullah, one of the farmers, said this year he had cultivated 2.8 tonnes of wheat on rain . . .
