SAR-I-PUL CITY (Pajhwok): Eighty percent of livestock in northern Sar-i-Pul province are facing food shortage, an official said on Tuesday.
Agriculture Director Qari Abdul QadirWahdat told Pajhwok Afghan News: “”Due to drought, 80pc livestock face food shortage in the province.”
He said the Agriculture Department had distributed cottonseed meal in Sar-i-Pul City and some districts among 3,000 farmers.
He said the aid was not enough to meet food shortage of livestock, adding that a number of NGOs had pledged support to farmers in the province to coup with the ongoing drought.
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