Amin Samsour

About two million chicks are being produced every month in several poultry farms in southern Kandahar, meeting 70 percent of the province’s chicken meat demand and supplying neighbouring provinces.

Dozens of farmers in southern Kandahar province have requested training in mushroom farming following a Pajhwok report promoting it as an alternative to poppy cultivation, the Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock Department said Wednesday.

At least six children were killed after the roof of a house collapsed in Dand district of southern Kandahar province, officials said on Thursday.

Industrialists in southern Kandahar have called for the relocation of Kochis (nomads) who have settled on 500 acres of land designated for the provincial industrial park. Officials, however, have assured that efforts are ongoing to resolve the issue.

Work has begun on paving the Panjwai two-way road in Kandahar city’s seventh district, a project spanning 1,100 meters in length and 40 meters in width, at a cost of about 70 million afghanis.

KANDAHAR (Pajhwok): Authorities in southern Kandahar province have started allotting plots of land to returning refugee families under residential schemes after Pajhwok published a report about shelter problems of the returnees.

KANDAHAR (Pajhwok): A woman and her two children were killed when the roof of a room in their house collapsed in Khakrez district of southern Kandahar province on Saturday.

Chamber of Commerce officials say more than 23,000 tonnes of pomegranates, worth 10.56 million US dollars, have been exported from southern Kandahar province to various countries so far this year.

The Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock Department says mushroom farms have been established for dozens of farmers in the Khakrez district of southern Kandahar province as an alternative to poppy cultivation.

One individual was killed and four others injured in a traffic accident in southern Zabul province, officials said on Saturday.

The Department of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock says Kandahar province has nearly achieved self-sufficiency in chicken meat and egg production, with around 1,200 active poultry farms currently operating.

A three-day exhibition titled “Anar” (Pomegranate) has been kicked off in southern Kandahar province to promote marketing opportunities for domestic products.