What types of crops will the Iowans help Afghan farmers grow?
The primary crop in that area is wheat. “So we’ll be focused primarily on helping them do a better job of growing wheat and improving their wheat yields,” he says. “Afghan farmers also have a number of fruits and vegetables they grow in the area we are going to. Some of the best apples that you’ll ever eat, for example are grown there. Pomegranates are another good crop they grow in Afghanistan. In addition to helping them improve their orchard management, we will be getting poultry projects started. That’s a goal of ours on the livestock side, establishing small scale poultry enterprises with the villagers. That seems to have been very successful with them so far.” The idea is to get the Afghans to grow some higher value crops and improve their livestock and crop profitability, so the farmers in that country will quit producing so many poppies which are used for narcotics; certainly a “high value” crop. “The Afghan farmers are very good at growing wheat, apples and orchard types of fo
