The American military is expanding its efforts to rebuild Afghanistan's agriculture after decades of war left the nation's farm-based economy in ruins.
Once a major exporter of dried fruits, nuts and exotic crops such as pomegranates, Afghanistan is now known mainly for growing poppies for the opium trade.
Many farmers who knew how to successfully raise food crops were killed or fled the country during the past three decades, said Col. Martin Leppert, who oversees the Army National Guard's Afghan agribusiness effort from offices in Arlington, Va.
"Imagine if everyone who was a farmer got up and left Kansas - we'd have to re-teach those people who are still there. That's what we're trying to do in Afghanistan," Leppert said...>>>>>
This reminds me of a few of the programs used during our 'Nam occupation, maybe it'll work now. But these types of programs should have started after taking down the Taliban and while still searching for the criminal element al Qaeda, not in creating more and more hatreds making it extremely dangerous for NGO's to work effectively in these countries in trying to help the residents of, more dangerous by enhancing the Taliban movement as well as the al Qaeda network of criminals!!
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