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Taliban’s Illegitimate Government Runs on Collecting Charities from the Poor Farmers

22nd September, 2022 · admin

8am: Local sources in Takhar report that the Taliban in this province collect tithes from farmers’ crops several times. On Thursday, September 22, a source said, quoting the farmers of some districts in this province, that the Taliban has not defined any mechanism for tithes collection, but there are local Taliban commanders who collect tithes

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Posted in Corruption, Economic News, Ethnic Issues | Tags: Corrupt Taliban, Farming, Life under Taliban rule, Takhar, Taliban looters, Taliban torture |
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Water Shortages: Nimurz Farmers Irrigate Agricultural Fields Using Well Water

4th May, 2022 · admin

8am: Local sources in Nimruz province have reported that farmers in the province irrigate their fields using well water due to the lack of agricultural water. According to farmers, there is no water left in Kamal Khan dam after the Taliban allowed the dam’s water to flow to Iran. Click here to read more (external

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Posted in Economic News, Environmental News, Taliban | Tags: Farming, Life under Taliban rule, Nimroz, Taliban government failure, water |
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Drought Threatens Afghan Farmers During Uncertain Transition Year

16th March, 2021 · admin

Mustafa Sarwar Radio Free Afghanistan March 16, 2021 Farmer Abdul Shakur planted green beans in the northern Parwan Province. But the fate of his crop hangs in the balance this year due to a lack of adequate snowfall. The 65-year-old farmer says his seven-member family depends on his small plot of land, one-third of a

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Posted in Economic News, Environmental News | Tags: Badakhshan, drought, Farming, Herat, Uruzgan |
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“Mother of All Bombs” Caused Illness, Ruined Farmland: Residents

1st December, 2019 · admin

Tolo News:  Almost two and a half years after the United States dropped the “mother of all bombs” onto a Daesh hideout in eastern Afghanistan, locals say they have been afflicted by “many diseases” and agricultural lands are not yielding crops. TOLOnews reporter Abdulhaq Omeri interviewed residents of Mohmand Dara village, in the Achin district in

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Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Economic News, Health News, Human Rights, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Farming, Nangarhar |
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How greenhouses are warming Afghanistan up to peace

1st March, 2018 · admin · 2 Comments

Ozy: Because new tactics are giving farmers an alternative to poppy fields. Abdul Hadi is a farmer in a village in southern Afghanistan. For more than a decade, he has wrestled with the difficult landscape, producing wheat and other sustainability crops despite failing irrigation systems and harsh winters. “Less than half of the farmers could afford to

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Posted in Drugs, Economic News | Tags: Farming, greenhouse, opium, Poppy cultivation |
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Effort to Revive Afghan Pistachio Crop Hampered by Taliban

5th May, 2017 · admin

Khalil Noorzai Gulrahim Niazman VOA News May 4, 2017 HERAT, AFGHANISTAN — Farmers in some parts of Afghanistan are trying to revive pistachio crops as an alternative to the opium poppy crops, but they are running into problems with Taliban taking a cut to supplement its income. “We work hard here to cultivate pistachio and benefit

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Posted in Economic News, Environmental News, Taliban | Tags: Farming, Forests, Herat, Pistachios |
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Afghan farmers forced to grow poppies for living

21st April, 2016 · admin

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, April 21 (Xinhua) — “Growing poppies and selling opium is the only way to earn a living and support my family,” Assadullah, 65, a farmer, told Xinhua on his poppy plantation in a southern province of the city recently. Working on his poppy field on the outskirts of Kandahar’s provincial capital, about 450

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Posted in Drugs, Economic News | Tags: Farming, Kandahar |

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