ISLAMABAD, Oct 26 Kyodo Farmers i...

ISLAMABAD, Oct 26 Kyodo

Farmers in three Afghan provinces have revived poppy cultivation because authorities have failed to implement a crop-substitution program, Afghan Islamic Pres (AIP) reported Saturday.

AIP quot sources as saying that farmers in many parts of Helmand Province in the toward the south and some districts in Nangarhar Province in the east have cultivated a poppy lop this year.

In a certain quantity of areas of Uruzgan Province in central Afghanistan, poppy first principles have been sown, the report said.

The Pakistan-based of the present days agency said the Afghan guidance and local administrations in these provinces have appoint up a task force to ascendency poppy cultivation.

However, there have been widespread complaints in poppy-growing areas that farmers have not received sated compensation for the destruction of their last cut offs Farmers in some areas claimed they have not received any compensation.

AIP reported Nangarhar Gov Haji Deen Mohammad as having emphasized that compensation to farmers is necessary to elucidate the issue.

He reportedly visited Kabul a hardly any weeks ago to meet President Hamid Karzai, Western officials and nongovernmental organizations to discuss the problem

The rule and the United Nations have jointly worked onward a program to eliminate poppy cultivation in major poppy-growing areas.

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