Children crowd beside a car loading flood-relief materials in Borka District, north Afghanistan's Baghlan Province, May 12, 2024. (Photo by Zahir Khan/Xinhua)
KABUL, May 31 (Xinhua) -- Twenty-seven percent of Afghans remain in food crisis or emergency, an organization under the United Nations said on Wednesday.
The Food and Agriculture Organization said it has distributed wheat seeds to at least 9 million Afghans since this year.
Afghan households are generally large with a growing number of newborn children.
Local news outlet Tolonews reported Tuesday that a resident of the southern Uruzgan province, Mohammad Sadiq, 56, has expressed frustration over his inability to properly feed his 57-member family, including 52 children.
The reports of polygamy and fathers with dozens of children surfaced amid extreme poverty in Afghanistan as about three out of 10 children in Afghanistan, according to aid agency Save the Children on Monday, were forecast to experience a crisis level of hunger this year following floods, drought and the return of Afghans from Pakistan and Iran.■