RASC: The World Food Program has predicted that Afghanistan will face a 30-35% shortage of wheat production this year.
This organization has written in a report that due to drought and locust infestation, a quarter of this year’s wheat crop equal to one million and two hundred thousand tons of wheat will be lost.
The report added that anti-locust operations are underway and the consequences of locust infestations are decreasing, but it seems that locust infestations will be more widespread and devastating next year.
However, WFP believes that food shortages and hunger in Afghanistan are caused by the economic crisis that followed the month of Asad 1400 – when the Taliban took power.
According to this organization affiliated to the United Nations, this crisis has worsened the situation along with the consequences of several decades of conflict, the climate crisis and the severe restriction of the rights of women and girls.
The statistics of the World Food Program indicate that 15.3 million people are exposed to food insecurity in the spring and summer seasons. In addition, three million and two hundred thousand people are exposed to acute malnutrition and the same number of children under five years of age will suffer from malnutrition.
According to this international organization, the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance is still high and includes two-thirds of the total population of Afghanistan equal to 28.8 million tons.
However, the World Program added in its report that humanitarian aid to Afghanistan has reduced the number of people exposed to food insecurity from 20 million to 15.2 million tons.
This organization emphasized the need to continue these aids to prevent the alarming increase in malnutrition and hunger in Afghanistan.
At the same time, the leaders and media sources of the Taliban group are continuously reporting the increase in grain harvest and the improvement of the economic situation in Afghanistan.
After this group came to power in the month of Asad, 1400, unemployment and poverty among the people of Afghanistan have spread greatly, and this, together with the fear caused by the rule of the Taliban group, has caused hundreds of thousands of people to flee this country.
