SAR-I-PUL (Pajhwok): Agriculture officials in northern Sar-i-Pul province say about 60 percent of rain-fed farms and 15 percent of irrigated fields have been dried up due to a shortage of rain and drought in the province.
Qari Abdul Qadir Wahdat, provincial agriculture director, told Pajhwok Afghan News that 15 percent of irrigated fields, including wheat and barley, in the capital of Sar-i-Pul province had been parched due to shortage of rains.
He added that 60 percent of the rain-fed fields in Sayad and SuzmaQala districts have dried up, and 40 percent of . . .
