Challenges for Afghanistan in 2025 include continuing human rights violations, economic instability and food insecurity; ...

Investing in agriculture in Afghanistan is critical as the sector accounts for a quarter of the national economy, and plays an important role in the livelihoods of the approximately 76% of the ...

Afghanistan used to produce more than 80% of ... Less-profitable wheat crops have supplanted poppies in fields - and many farmers saying they are suffering financially. We travelled to provinces ...

The White House said President Joe Biden spoke to the families of three Americans held by the Taliban in Afghanistan since 2022 and promised to do everything possible to bring them home as he ...

KABUL — Opium cultivation rose by 19 percent in Afghanistan this year, the UN reported Wednesday, despite a Taliban government ban that almost eradicated the crop. Currently, 12,800 hectares of ...

“Afghanistan was actually making some pretty ... “The U.S. can feed a lot of people, and our agriculture is critical to world food security,” Buffett says, “but it also comes down to ...

The Taliban are strictly enforcing their drug ban for the third year in a row. As yet this has had surprisingly little impact on global opium and heroin markets. Bitte passen Sie die Einstellungen an.

More than 1 billion US dollars have been invested in the poultry sector in Afghanistan to help the post-war country achieve self-sufficiency in prod ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Two years after the Taliban banned opium, Afghan farmers turning to alternative crops are discovering that many no longer grow easily here because of the impact of ...

KABUL, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- Afghanistan has harvested 40 tons of saffron in 2024 with 90 percent of the precious spice produced in the western Herat province, spokesman for the Ministry of Agriculture, ...

"The realisation that you could produce methamphetamine from a wild crop in the mountains has been a fundamental gamechanger," said Dr David Mansfield, an expert on Afghanistan's drug industry and ...