FARAH CITY (Pajhwok): A number of gardeners in western Farah province complain that dozens of their pomegranate orchards affected due to acute drought.
Jan Agha, a resident of “Kohdanak” village in Farah City, told Pajhwok Afghan News that dozens of pomegranate orchards dried up and perished due to drought.
He said: “Our village is known as pomegranate village, but dozens of orchards have dried up due to the severe drought and now the village looks like a desert.”
Omid, another resident of the village, said: “Due to the drought in our area, 90 percent of the pomegranate orchards dried up . . .
