80% Reduction In Farmers' Crops Due To This Year's Drought
He has planted turmeric on an acre of land. "Last year the white manure was 1,550 afghanis, but this year it has reached 2,500 afghanis, last year the onion kilos was 80, but this year we sold it for thirty,forty afghanis," he said. "
The emergence is concerned about the drought and the scarcity of problems it faces during the winter season.
Comparing the previous years with this year, Seyyed Ahmad asks for help from the officials: "A few years ago, no one could walk on the ground this season due to snow and rain, but now it is a dry year, the ground is dry, due to lack of water and "Agriculture is burning and disappearing. The government should lower the price of fertilizer for us, help and cooperate so that we can be calm."
Drought has also negatively affected livestock; Especially now that winter is on its way.
Zohour says that in winter, their livestock, such as cattle and sheep, need dry fodder to survive, but the drought has also reduced fodder, and this year they do not know what winter will bring to their livestock.