asafetida

LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): The government has started efforts to promote cultivation of medicinal plant asafetida, deemed as poppy substitute, in southern Helmand province, provincial Agriculture and

FEROZKOH CITY (Pajhwok): Farmers in western Ghor province have started growing asafetida as a substitute to poppy after the caretaker government banned the illicit crop.