QALAT (Pajhwok): Thousands of farmers are being distributed improved wheat seed and chemical fertilizer in southern Zabul province.
Provided by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the assistance is being distributed to 7000 farmers by the Afghan Development Association (ADA).
Zabul agriculture director Maulvi Ataullah Rashid told Pajhwok Afghan News each farmer was being given 50 kilograms of improved wheat seed, 50 kilograms of white and 50 kilograms of black urea worth 17000 afghanis.
The assistance is being distributed among 2000 farmers each in Qalat, the provincial capital, and Shinkai district and 1000 farmers each in Shahri Safa . . .
