{"id":1808,"date":"2025-05-30T13:50:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T09:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2025-05-30T13:50:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T09:20:27","slug":"significant-increase-in-wheat-production-in-khost-a-key-step-toward-afghanistans-domestic-flour-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/significant-increase-in-wheat-production-in-khost-a-key-step-toward-afghanistans-domestic-flour-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Significant Increase in Wheat Production in Khost: A Key Step Toward Afghanistan\u2019s Domestic Flour Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Weezharoz<\/strong>-According to official data, around 18,595 hectares of land in Khost have been cultivated with wheat, expected to yield approximately 50,698 metric tons a significant rise compared to previous years.<\/p>\n<p>This achievement comes as a result of the distribution of improved wheat seeds and chemical fertilizers to 19,200 farmers, supported by partner organizations and coordinated by the agriculture department.<\/p>\n<p>Local officials say the initiative aims to boost agricultural self-sufficiency, reduce dependency on imported flour, and empower local farmers in Khost.<\/p>\n<p>This development comes amid ongoing food security challenges in Afghanistan, worsened in recent years by drought and heavy reliance on wheat and flour imports from neighboring countries.<\/p>\n<p>The Khost Agriculture Department has pledged to continue its support for farmers to ensure maximum land productivity and strengthen the local economy.<\/p>\n<p>This trend marks a crucial move toward enhancing domestic flour supply, lowering imports, and improving national food security.<\/p>\n<p>weezharoz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weezharoz-According to official data, around 18,595 hectares of land in Khost have been cultivated with wheat, expected to yield approximately 50,698 metric tons a significant rise compared to previous years. This achievement comes as a result of the distribution of improved wheat seeds and chemical fertilizers to 19,200 farmers, supported by partner organizations and coordinated &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1810,"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions\/1810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}