Afghan farmer says cotton and wheat no longer support his family
Politics · First reported 29 Oct, 06:38 · Updated 15:53
A farmer in Balkh province says that after the Taliban’s poppy ban, he now grows cotton and wheat but struggles to provide for his family.
- Mohammad Dawood, 28, says he previously harvested poppy and that his children are now malnourished.
- Dawood says he now works in cotton and wheat fields that provide barely enough to live on.
- The report places Dawood in Baba Yusuf village, in Afghanistan’s Balkh province.
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- Farmer
- Mohammad Dawood, 28 [0c25cc86-4460-45d1-b70f-3316a-a6a03e92]
- Location
- Baba Yusuf village, Balkh province, Afghanistan [0c25cc86-4460-45d1-b70f-3316a-a6a03e92]
- Crops now worked
- Cotton and wheat [0c25cc86-4460-45d1-b70f-3316a-a6a03e92]
- Reported family impact
- Dawood says his children are malnourished [0c25cc86-4460-45d1-b70f-3316a-a6a03e92]
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