This Is What You Need to Know about How Better Farming Methods Have Improved the Health of Afghan Orchards

by Ehsan Bayat | Jul 2, 2020 | Afghanistan, Agriculture, Conservation, Crops, Farm, Water, Weather

Orchards have been the backbone of Afghanistan’s agricultural society for centuries. However, maintaining these orchards has been difficult. Hard-to-solve issues such as invasive insects and plant diseases have stymied farmers and destroyed crops. As a result, many...

How Aggressive Tree Planting Could Help Afghanistan’s Environment

by Ehsan Bayat | May 1, 2020 | Afghanistan, Agriculture, Conservation, Energy, Middle East, Weather

For several years, Afghanistan has promoted a seemingly simple solution to cutting pollution, stabilizing environmental problems, and bringing a little happiness to people: planting trees. Through years of war, torrential floods, deforestation, and droughts,...

How Afghan Onions Came to the Rescue

by Ehsan Bayat | Apr 1, 2020 | Afghanistan, Agriculture, Business, Conservation, Crops, Farm, Middle East, Weather

In the fall of 2019, India’s onion crops suffered a 26 percent decline during the kharif and late-kharif seasons due to a monsoon and additional heavy rains that hit Maharashtra, Karnataka, and other Indian states that produce onions. The vegetable is common in Indian...

Spotlight on the Revival of Afghanistan’s Cotton Industry

by Ehsan Bayat | Feb 20, 2020 | Afghanistan, Agriculture, Business, Conservation, Crops, Infrastructure, Water, Weather

For centuries, cotton cultivation in Afghanistan has fluctuated due to various ecological and economic factors. The profitably of cotton ceased entirely by the late 1900s and remained so for several decades. However, the Afghanistan government and social activists...

This Is How Afghan Officials Are Fighting Pollution

by Ehsan Bayat | Feb 6, 2020 | Afghanistan, Agriculture, Conservation, Healthcare, History, Infrastructure, Technology, Water

One of the fastest-growing dangers in Afghanistan may be one of the hardest to fight: air pollution. Recent reports show that the country’s air quality, especially in Kabul, can be deadly. According to the research group State of Global Air, more than 26,000 deaths in...

This Is What You Need to Know about These 4 Afghan Crops

by Ehsan Bayat | Dec 19, 2019 | Afghanistan, Agriculture, Conservation, Crops, Farm, Infrastructure, Middle East, Technology, Water, Weather

Agriculture has a long, rich history in Afghanistan. Prior to the Soviet invasion in the late 1970s, agriculture comprised about 50 percent of the nation’s GDP. Afghanistan was also the world’s largest exporter of dried fruits and nuts at that time. However, in the...