{"id":77862,"date":"2018-04-11T07:12:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T07:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/drought-in-takhar-affects-agriculture-harvest\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:40:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T10:40:43","slug":"drought-in-takhar-affects-agriculture-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/drought-in-takhar-affects-agriculture-harvest\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought in Takhar affects agriculture harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"373\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2018\/4- Apr\/11\/shali.jpg\" width=\"569\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">TAKHAR (SW): Officials at the Directorate of Water Management in Takhar have reported a 50 percent drop in water level in the province, saying possible clashes between the farmers predicted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Salam Akbar, the director of Directorate of Water Management in Takhar told Salam Watandar that a shortage of water is expected as the weather gets warmer in the summer-time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Local officials in Takhar said they have asked the farmers to grow less rice this season in order to prevent clashes between the farmers over the shortage of water.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Salem Saee, head of Directorate of Agriculture in Takhar said rice cultivation will likely drop by 70% this year due to lack of enough water needed for the crop.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Every year 80,000 acres of land was allocated for the rice farming which requires plenty of water, however, only 30% of these lands will be allocated for the cultivation this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials at the Directorate of Water Management in Takhar have reported a 50 percent drop in water level in the province, saying possible clashes between the farmers predicted. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-77862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}