Kandahar

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.

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.

A number of farmers in southern Kandahar province say the water level in Dahla Dam has sharply decreased due to heavy sedimentation and lack of rainfall, severely affecting agriculture and orchards.

The husband of former Wolesi Jirga member Fariba Ahmadi Kakar has been killed in the capital of southern Kandahar province, police have confirmed.

One armed robber has been killed and another injured in a clash with security forces in Kandahar city, an official said on Tuesday.

Residents of Kandahar city, the capital of southern Kandahar province, report groundwater levels have plummeted beyond 100 meters, with most wells having dried up.

Two children have been killed and five others injured when the roof of a room collapsed in southern Kandahar province.

Burned body of an elderly man recovered on Thursday in the Panjwai district of eastern Kandahar province, an official said on Thursday.

The Chamber of Industry and Mines says eight poultry feed factories are currently operating in southern Kandahar province.

KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): A fire that broke out late yesterday in a battery and spare parts market in the Spin Boldak district of southern Kandahar

KANDAHAR (Pajhwok): Firefighters from Pakistan joined their Afghan colleagues to extinguish a fire broke out in a battery and spare parts market in the Spin