Afghanistan is located in Asia and close in proximity to the equator which indicates that it’s geography corresponds with the weather and conditions that this area experiences. From data taken from 1900 to 2012, Afghanistan has generally experienced rain around the months of January to April with the most rain in March. A fall in the amount of rainfall is seen as the months go by and starts to rise again around October until April of the next year. As for the temperature of Afghanistan, the coldest months are January and December at around 0 degrees Celsius or 32 degrees Fahrenheit and the hottest months are June to August at around 25 degrees Celsius or 77 degrees Fahrenheit. From January until July, the temperature of the country increases …show more content…
The most important livestock are cattle because they produce dairy products and are used in the farm.
Dairy products, especially milk, are common in each individual 's diet in Afghanistan. However, the number of livestock per family has dropped. Since the agricultural sector has weakened over the years, organizations like ATVET (Agricultural Technical and Vocational Educational Training) has established over 100 schools in Afghanistan to rebuild agricultural education. They are teaching new agricultural methods by providing updated materials, like the solar dehydrator, drip irrigation kits, poultry houses, and composting kits. These schools teach the principles of economics and agriculture, agricultural extension, fruit and nut production, poultry production, and soil education. (ProPublica) Purdue University partnered with the United States Department of Agriculture/U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to spread agricultural education in Afghanistan. The USAID has improved irrigation and water availability by expanding agricultural land, allowing farmers to produce more than one crop. There are many other organizations like ICARDA and Afghanistan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation, and Livestock (MAIL) are government funded from outside countries to bump up food supply. These organizations aim to reach a sustainable food security and teach farmers new method as well as raise awareness of the food crises. However, the main problem of these organizations is that, though they are educating farmers, they don’t have a long enough reach to actually impact the whole country or the situation. This aid will only help small populations of farmers, and not on a large enough
In Afghanistan, education is not easily attainable especially as a woman. “For girls in much of the country, education remains a dream no more attainable now than it was under the Taliban. If women are educated, that means their children will be too. If the people of the world want to solve the hard problems in Afghanistan--kidnapping, beheadings, crime and even al-Qaeda--they should invest in education”(Baker).This quote explains the struggles that young afghanistan children have to go through by not getting the opportunities that American children get every day. Even after Afghanistan was under the Taliban, it was still rare for children to attend school which is a horrible reality. Education is explained as one Afghanistan's worst problems of this time. Future generations are in trouble if this problem is not fixed. The tragedy that these children are facing needs to evolve towards a better system. Afghanistan’s current educational structure is unacceptable to the growth of children. “It's hard to overstate the amount of work to be done. The literacy rate in the country has dropped below 40 percent for men, and it is believed to be as low as 4 percent for women” (Whitelaw). Though there is clearly a lot of work to be done in the education systems, it is crucial to the well-being of many children that the systems improve to inspire kids that education along with hard work and dedication is essential to future success. This is only one
Interestingly enough, many different ethnic groups can be found in Afghanistan. Some are from other countries and others have only Afghan routes. Discoveries show that Hazaras are one of the lowest and Pashtuns one of the highest powers in Afghan society. People would automatically assume that there were only one or two different ethnic groups, which live in Afghanistan. However, there appears to be a great variety of different peoples living in Afghan society. All together, fourteen different ethnicities can be discovered in Afghanistan. I have found the following: Arab, Hindu-Sikh, Farsiwans, Wakhis, Sunni Brahui, Qizilbash, Aimaqs, Baluchs, Nuristanis, Turkmens, Uzbeks, Hazaras, Tajik, and Pashtun people.
...nd usually the institutions and churches do not have the resources to provide a safety net for starving people. What we have found when working with the World Bank is that the poor man's safety net, the best investment, is school feeding. And if you fill the cup with local agriculture from small farmers, you have a transformative effect. Many kids in the world can't go to school because they have to go beg and find a meal. But when that food is there, it's transformative. It costs less than 25 cents a day to change a kid's life.” (Sheeran)
New technologies not only allowed farming to become more efficient, but made the process of shipping crops west much easier. The most important innovation in farming itself was the horse-drawn combine, which required many horses to operate, but allowed wheat, a popular crop to grow in the west, to be harvested en masse. (Document D) However, railroads were also incredibly important for farmers, as they allowed Wheat, cotton, and corn to be transported across the country
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Afghanistan has had a history, full of violence and wars since the last 176 years, from being invaded by the British in 1838 to the soviet Russians in 1979, but those long wars have left the once prosperous and wealthy country, into a country torn apart into shreds (BBC News). The future of Afghanistan will be highly unstable due to its high levels of poverty, which is a major factor on the outcome of the country’s future. Wars are great contributors to high poverty levels and it is reported that “20 million out of the 26 million people in the country, are living under the line of poverty” (Rural poverty Portal), that is about 75% of the country’s population. When 75% of the country population is living under the harsh living conditions and poverty, it leaves the country’s economy running on fumes. The high level of poverty also leaves most of the country in a survival mi...
...ains had an immense impact on the economy of Afghanistan. These mountains were a huge barrier against the building infrastructure of Afghanistan because no ring road was building during Amanullah khan reign. Therefore, since there was lack of infrastructure the national economy did not developed. Materialization of a countrywide market is very crucial for modernization, but these mountains did not let an economically interact between Afghans with each other to shape a national market for Afghanistan. As Afghanistan national economy did not emerge the economy remained subsistent. However, he brings in monetized economy but it never worked in the mountainous rural area because gaining access was difficult at that time. In contrast, Turkey is flat and it does not have a mountainous terrain which is very easy to infiltrate the whole country and create a national market.
(Big farms are highly suggested over smaller farms due to the amount of animals you can grow on them.) As told by Implications of Pig Factory Farming, “However, beginning with factory farming chickens in
When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan on December 1979, the goal was to help Afghan communist forces set up a communist government. The Soviet Union felt Afghanistan had key resources and a foothold in the Middle East to spread communist ideas. The result would be a war that the Soviet Union wishes it never got involved in and likened to their “Vietnam War”, meaning winning a number of battles but not the war like what happened to the U.S. in Vietnam. The background of the war, outcome of the war, and impact on the United States are key to understanding the Soviet-Afghan War.
Afghanistan since its beginning has been a place of conflict, despair, and at times lost hope. It has been taken advantage of and lost its sense of identity, which has had a direct effect on its people, and there own sense of what justice truly is.
On a map you can find Afghanistan in the Asia continent. Afghanistan has a total of 6 neighboring countries. The six countries are, China, Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and last but not least Uzbekistan. Afghanistan is surrounded by land and is a mountainous country. It is entitled to be located in Central Asia. Afghanistan connects South and East Asia with Central and Western Asia. “It is the 41st largest in the world in size.”
Food security is one of the largest problems facing our world today. To be "food secure" a country must have enough food to feed its population and be capable of feeding its growing population in the future. About 700 million people today do not have enough food available to keep themselves healthy. They are plagued by hunger, malnutrition, disease, and death. One reason that many third world countries are not food secure is that they do not have the technology to keep up with the growth in population. For example, in many countries crop fields cannot be worked to their full potential. One way to help solve this problem is to bring unused machinery, which has been exceeded by our technology to these countries. But it takes more than just bringing the technology to them; we need to teach them to use it and to grow from it.
Afghanistan; Taliban controlled, discrimination and love everywhere yet nowhere at the same time. It’s a nation where culture and tradition are of immense importance, especially to the older generation. Over 53% of Afghan population is below the poverty line, making the country one of the Earth’s poorest. Life would be lived on a day to day basis, not knowing if it’s safe to be outside, when...
“Currently 80% of the world’s agricultural land is used directly or indirectly for animal production. In the US over half the total land mass is used for the production of meat and dairy products” (Clarke).
So overall, Agriculture is playing a very important role in changing the lifestyle of different people. Agriculture might have made everything easy for us but it still has its cons. We see the effects of agriculture and how it affects the lives of other species and the environment.