Funding should nurture the efforts of female-led, grassroots organisations to counter the Taliban’s restrictions ...

4 (Xinhua) -- The Afghan caretaker government's Ministry of Commerce and Industry plans to rebuild and reactivate 14 cold storage facilities across the country, aiming at helping farmers preserve ...

Some areas grow more than others. According to sources inside Afghanistan and on Taliban-run social media accounts, farmers in about 29 provinces have been growing poppies since spring.

The ban has hit farmers such as Asadollah hard. The peasant from southern Afghanistan is struggling to survive after he is no longer allowed to grow opium after some 20 years. "Our fields are no ...

Muhad, a Muslim boy from Afghanistan, attends college in California ... Muhad is forced to head North with the rest of the farmers to harvest the poppies. Victoria has settled into her new ...

Deputy chief of the UN in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Indrika Ratwatte, on Tuesday met with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Deputy ...

According to UN officials, “Catastrophic and famine-like conditions” hang over Afghanistan’s farmers and herders, whose needs continue to worsen with the onset of winter. A Rome-based UN agency, said ...