Beekeeping in Afghanistan. Ootp.org photo.
Eighty-five percent of Afghans work in agriculture. In Logar, a wheat- and fruit-growing province 50 miles south of Kabul, the percentage is even higher. When NATO forces arrived in strength in Logar two years ago, commanders quickly realized they would have to speak the language of farming in order to improve ties with local residents and hopefully boost the legitimacy of the Afghan government.
Today, that vital task falls to a specialized team of U.S. Army agricultural experts from a western U.S. state that one expert says reminds him a lot of Logar. The 63-person Nevada Agribusiness Development Team, one of nine such teams currently deployed to Afghanistan, is “on the cutting edge of counter-insurgency,” according to Col. Johnny Isaak, the team commander.
The ADT concept originated in 2007, when the Army realized it was not getting adequate support in Afghanistan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Agency for International Development. To replace these civilian agencies, the Army asked the National Guards of rural U.S. states to form the ADTs. The first teams were on the ground in Afghanistan by late 2007; the program’s mandate expires in 2013, just one year before the last major U.S. combat unit is slated to leave Afghanistan.
Dear Mr & Mrs
I published in 2012 on book in Dari language for Afghan Beekeepers.It’s very interstant and help Afghan beekeepers.You find in this adress:
Beekeeping guidline in Dari edite by Terre des Hommes in afghanistan2012.
http://www.beesfordevelopment.org/uploads/Beekeeping guidline in Dari.pdf
Dear Mr I’d like to work in Afghanistan.But the Afghan peopele need jabs for future.I have several articles about Afghanistan:
Agriculture and Apiculture in Afghanistan. Bulletin on line OIE, No 4, 2011. page59-62.
http://www.oie.int/fileadmin/Home/eng/Publications_&_Documentation/docs/pdf/Bull_2011-4-ENG.pdf
●Agriculture and Apiculture in Afghanistan.29.01.2011.
http://www.beekeeping.com/articles/us/agriculture_beekeeping_afghanistan.pdf
●Developpement de l’agriculture et l’apiculture en Afghanistan,04/07/2010
http://www.beekeeping.com/articles/fr/agri_apicuture_afghanistan
● La Situation actuelle de l’apiculture Afghane.20.07.2009.
http://www.beekeeping.com/articles/fr/api_afghan.pdf
http://www.beesfordevelopment.org/uploads/La%20situation%20actuelle%20de%20l%5C%27apiculture%20Afghane.pdf
●Causes de mortalite’ des colonies d’abeilles en Afghanistan,Iraq,Iran.22.03.2009.
http://www.beekeeping.com/articles/fr/abeilles_afghanistan_iran_iraq.pdf
●La creation 10.000 emplois en apiculture pour les Afghans.13.02.2009.
http:// http://www.beekeeping.com/articles/fr/emplois_apiculture¬_afghanistan.pdf
http://beesfordevelopment.org/uploads/Beekeeping%20jobs%20in%20Afghanistan%20in%20French147.pdf
●Natural and chemical control of Varroa destructor and Tropilaelaps mercedesae in Afghanistan
25.07.2008. http://www.beekeeping.com/articles/us/natural_chemical_control_%20 of_varroa.pdf
●L’apiculture dans le developpement agricole l’exemple de la region de Rustaq en Afghanistan
25.07.2008 http://www.beekeeping.com/articles/fr/apiculture_developpement_agricole_afghanistan .pdf
With Best Regards
Avec toute ma sympahtie
Mit freundichen GrÜben
Reza SHAHROUZI
International Counsellor for Agriculture & Apiculture
Qazvin-Iran.P.O.Box 34185-451
rezashahrouzi@yahoo.com
Phone :+98 281 3687062
Fax: :+98 281 2227144
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