Saturday January 25, 2014
Kabul (BNA) Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock Mohammad Asif Raheemi in a news conference held on Thursday said lack of electricity and agricultural products were the main problems towards development of agricultural industry in the country.
“Despite problems in the past few years, role of private sector has been important for improvement of agricultural products in the country, saying currently there are possibilities for irrigation of almost 2 million hectare fields in the country, but it is determined the amount will increased to 3.5 million hectare fields in coming years,” Raheemi added in the conference.
According to MAIL and UN, currently Afghanistan has nearly 20,000 hectare areas for gardening and agricultural products have increased by three fold comparing to ten years ago. In the news conference, Deputy Minister of Commerce and Industries said, “We have 30% income from agricultural products, while 90% income of agricultural products is attained through small and middle sectors.”
According to officials for MoCI, although Afghanistan has good agricultural possibilities in agriculture sector, but the country is still importing its agricultural products from the neighboring countries.
