Agriculture

The Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock Department says 32 tonnes of milk are produced daily across 73 farms in southern Helmand province.

About 5,000 acres of land have been allocated for the construction of an agriculture complex in Tirinkot, the capital of central Uruzgan province, an official announced on Tuesday.

GARDEZ (Pajhwok): Wheat production in southeastern Paktia province surged to 60,000 metric tonnes this year, showing a 50 percent increase, local officials said on .

A two-day exhibition of agricultural products, livestock and women's handicrafts has been launched in northern Kunduz provinces to support farmers, and women industrialists in this province, an official said on Wednesday.

Farmers in southern Helmand province have started the cultivation of Raihan Flower --- Kashmali --- and an increase in its cultivation has been notice now compared to the past, an official said on Sunday.

Women farmers in northern Jawzjan province are calling on the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) to support them by providing refined seeds, fertilizers, and marketing assistance to improve their yields.

The production of apricot has gone up by 20 percent and cherry exports from central Parwan province have seen a 50 percent increase this year.

Western Herat province has become self-sufficient in producing eggs with the increased number of poultry farms, the Agriculture, Irrigation, and Livestock says.

Standing crops on more than 2,000 acres of land have been destroyed in recent heavy rains, storms and flash floods in eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Sunday.

Eyeing a two-fold surge in pistachio yield this year, officials said hundreds of guards have been hired to secure forests from illegal harvesting in Badghis province.

The Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock Department of northern Balkh province says about 500 hectares of land has been cultivated with sunflowers in the province this year –doubled compared to last year.

In the past six months 3,000 tonnes of poultry meat has been produced in northern Kunduz province showing a 58,3 percent increase compared to the previous six months, an official said on Thursday.