GARDEZ (Pajhwok): Agriculture officials in southeastern Paktia province say this year’s pine nut harvest reached around 13,000 tons --- up about 1,000 tons compared to last year’s. Bahadur Mangal, a pine nut trader in Paktia province, told Pajhwok...
JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Agriculture officials in eastern Nangarhar province on Sunday said that pine nut yield increased by 38 percent in the province this year. Officials say one of the reasons of high production of the fruit was distribution of...
KUNDUZ CITY (Pajhwok): Agriculture officials in northern Kunduz province say almond weighing 6,500 metric tons has so far been harvested in the province this year --- three percent up over last year’s yield. Majid Nafiz, cultivation affairs in...
KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Residents of Arghandab district of Kandahar province say hundreds of Taliban militants have arrived in the district and have launched coordinated attacks on Afghan forces there. On the other hand, security forces say they...
KANADAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Pomegranate production in southern Kandahar province has increased this year but the juicy fruit’s exports have declined, officials and orchard-owners say.
AIBAK (Pajhwok): This year’s grape harvest showed 28 percent increase over last year’s produce in northern Samangan province, an official said on Monday. Mohammad Osman Hanafi, the provincial agriculture director, told Pajhwok Afghan News that this...
GHAZNI CITY (Pajhwok): More than 2,000 metric tons of plums have been harvested from 260 orchards in southern Ghazni province, agriculture officials said on Saturday. Abdul Wali Kochi, Ghazni's director of agriculture, said there were four varieties...
KABUL (Pajhwok): The US Agency for International Development ( USAID ), US Department of Agriculture and the Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP) has renewed its commitment to support Afghanistan ’s agriculture sector. The US agencies pledged...
JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Canal Department officials in eastern Nangarhar province on Wednesday said alivera plants cultivated on 30 acres of land produced yield in two months. They said the plant being harvested was cultivated in the province for the...
JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Dates harvested from the Canal area in eastern Nangarhar province has been sold traditionally in the market due lack of required equipment, technology and facilities. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has planted around 2,800 trees...
JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Date harvest at the canal’s garden in eastern Nangarhar province is estimated to reach six tons --- four times up compared to last year’s yield, an official said Sunday. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has planted around 2,800...
HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): The Saffron Farmers Association in western Herat province on Thursday said around 50 percent of saffron produced in the province this year could not be exported abroad. Bashir Ahmad Rashidi, the Afghanistan Saffron farmers’...
KHOST CITY (Pajhwok): The Agriculture and Livestock department on Wednesday distributed fruit and vegetable drying machines to a number of male and female farmers in southeastern Khost province. According to officials, the solar-powered machines...
GARDEZ (Pajhwok): Agriculture officials say like other crops the yield of saffron plant was also satisfactory in southeastern Paktia province this year. Over the past three years, saffron is cultivated in Zurmat district and agriculture officials...
KUNDUZ CITY (Pajhwok): The yield of melon increased in northern Kunduz province this year amid complaints about lack of buyers. Jabar, a grower in Chahardara district, told Pajhwok Afghan News he collected 30,000 afghanis gross income from his half...
SHARANA (Pajhwok): Southeastern Paktika province produced more than 14,000 tons of pine nut this year, an official said on Monday. Paktika Agriculture Director Abubakar Sediqi told Pajhwok Afghan News the pine nut yield was record high this season...
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Ministry of Agriculture , Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL) on Sunday said pistachio harvest in western Badghis province would reach 34,000 tons -- double compared to last year’s.
KABUL (Pajhwok): The economic and financial condition of Agriculture Cooperatives has improved nation-wide compared to their situation four years back and their number surged from 30 to 159 cooperatives, the Ministry of Agriculture said on Saturday...
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Ministry of Agriculture has launched work on the construction of over 1,220 infrastructure projects at the cost of 376 million afghanis in 11 provinces, according to a statement on Thursday. The scheme included the construction...