The report said price of a tonne of wheat in Afghanistan has almost trebled this year, causing acute food shortages. A significant increase in wheat crops is now expected from next year’s harvest.
"The high price of commodities has encouraged farmers to switch from poppy cultivation to wheat," Tekeste Tekie, from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation, was quoted as saying. "In fact, we are already seeing evidence of this happening, for instance in the Bamian region, where some farmers have planted half wheat and half poppy crops."
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