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Sustainability in Agriculture
Afghan Lives Matter
God gave us the land to cultivate, not to wage war over it. He spread the land far and wide, sends down rain, you do your part (farm), God will help it grow. God is not a farmer
Afghanistan, like her other untapped resources, has also been granted four distinct seasons, and an elevation of 24k feet or 7k meters above sea level. That is four times higher than Lake Tahoe in California and Denver in Colorado. (There is about 2% margin of error in the conversion and calculations of feet to meters.)The gift of natural climate and elevation has not been used to her optimal potential because of two back to back invasions and subsequent civil wars. If Afghans come to their senses, and realize that they don’t have anything to show for the forty years of war, but tears and graves, it will be wise to try nation building by themselves. No one else is going to do it for them. Enemies of Afghanistan are willing to fan the flame, create divisions, arm all sides with guns and bullets but will not loan them a tractor to grow food.
We would like to ask all those who have helped Afghanistan with bullets in the past, to help build a bread basket, so Afghanistan will never be a burden again.
With 233 thousand kilometer square of arable land spread out almost equally to the North, South, East and West, Afghanistan does not need an extended transportation infrastructure to move the final raw material from one end of the country to the other. The existing infrastructure, for the time being, is sufficient to satisfy the needs of the present population. Afghanistan was cultivating only 11% of its arable (2018). By now due to higher mortality rate in the farming population that 11% may be much lower. For the immediate future, if Afghanistan could increase Cultivating its land from 11% to 20%, that’s an increase of only 9%, she will be able to feed the entire Afghan population.
In that 11% gardening, and livestock are included, so of the additional 9% is dedicated to only growing rice and wheat that will supplant the shortage of food for the population that faces mortality from starvation, as some see it by design.
Afghanistan’s neighbor to the South has 9000 square kilometer less arable land than Afghanistan, but has been able to feed 224 million of their own population and 38 million Afghans for the last 20 years. One reason is that Pakistan cultivates 39% of their arable land vs Afghanistan only 11%. Another reason is Pakistani people are working to build their country, vs Afghans working twice as hard to take up arms to destroy their own home and kill their own brothers. Afghans must change direction to bring change.