KALAT (Pajhwok): Almond yield in southern Zabul province has increased by 23 percent this year and mostly imported to India and Pakistan, an official said on Friday.
Almond yield in Zabul harvested in late October.
Agriculture Director Mawlavi Attaullah Rashid told Pajhwok Afghan News thousands tonnes of almond yield collected every year from almond orchards in Kalat, the provincial capital and Day Chopan, Arghandab, Shah Joy, Sewrai, Shinkai, Nawbahar, Smalzai, Shahr-i-Safa and Khak Afghan districts.
He said almond orchards are cultivated on up to 3,000 heactares of land in these districts which produced 1,240 tonnes of . . .
