Sunday, September 17, 2017
Kabul (BNA) Officials from Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL) said Afghanistan has 7.5 million hectares of arable land but only a small portion of the land is cultivated due to a lack of water and insecurity.
At least 2.5 million hectares of land was cultivated this year while over 3.6 million hectares of arable land was ready to be farmed, the MAIL says. From non-arable land, only 1, 44 million hectares was cultivated this year.
Afghanistan has 3.6 million hectares of irrigated land and 3.7 million hectares of non-irrigable land.
“The problems (for farmers) is the lack of access to land due to insecurity, lack of irrigation canals, and other issues which have remained from the past and have affected our activities in this respect,” said Lotfullah Rashid, spokesman for the Ministry of Agriculture.
