KABUL: Up to 200 acres of lands have been reportedly taken under plantation of thousands of lemon bushes in the country’s eastern Laghman province, Bakhtar, the state-controlled news agency reported Monday.
The program has been started in cooperation with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in the Qarghaye district of the province, where thousands of lemon bushes are planted by the provincial agriculture, irrigation and livestock, directorate according to the agency quoting the provincial authority.
“The plants would be cultivated in different villages of the district and maintained and overseen frequently,” said Mawlavi Mohammad Wali Muhsin, director of the provincial Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock.
This is to be noted that the FAO has also provided 12,000 chickens and 120 tons of chicken feed to 400 widows in the district, according to the agency.
The Kabul Times
Planting lemon bushes begun in Laghman
