TIRINKOT (Pajhwok): Agriculture officials in central Uruzgan province report an eight percent decease in wheat yield this year mainly due to drought, cultivation of poppy and not providing farmers with timely improved seed and fertilizer.
Farmers cultivate large swaths of land with wheat crop in Uruzgan each year beside other crops to meet their need and sell the yield to others.
Engineer Qudratullah Hamidi, extension manager at the agriculture department of Uruzgan, told Pajhwok Afghan News that wheat was planted on 24957 hectares of land in the province this year compared to 27128 hectors last year, showing an eight percent . . .
