Climate change adaptation key to region’s survival
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April 27, 2021
Excessively high dependence on water resources is the main reason for high susceptibility of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan to climate change impacts. This dependence is also rooted in low economic productivity of water use in all other Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) countries including Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, China, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Mongolia. To make efficient use of water, the principle of “more crop per drop” must be implemented in the irrigation sector and, water-energy subsidies could be slowly phased out and more pro-poor policies promoted instead of subsidising low efficiency water use.
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Afghanistan’s Statistics and Information Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL) has recorded a solid yield in the cultivation and harvest of beetroot for the 1399 solar year.
MAIL stated that in total, 5,000 metric tons of beetroot was harvested last solar year (April 2020 to March 2021) and that 2,910 metric tons was harvested in Takhar province alone.
MAIL reported that 194 hectares of agricultural land was used for the cultivation of beetroot last year in Takhar.
Other provinces where beetroot is grown in abundance is Herat, Ghor, Logar, Maidan Wardak, Kunduz, Ghazni and Kunar, the ministry said.