Afghanistan recuperates as wheat product goes up in 2019

An Afghan farmer harvests wheat in Sholgara district of the northern Balkh Province of Afghanistan, June 25, 2019. The heavily drought affected Afghanistan is now recuperating as officials give good news about high estimation of wheat products which have shown increase in the current year against the wheat harvested in 2018. In the current year, according to the estimation, the total wheat products would exceed 5.1 million tons showing 1.52 million tons increase, compared to last year's wheat products, in the country with over 50 percent of about 35 million population living under poverty line. (Xinhua/Kawa Basharat)