Raisins Give Hope to Afghan Farmers - nytimes

In the decades before war decimated Afghanistan’s infrastructure and its land, the country produced 10 percent of the world’s raisins. According to U.S. Department of Agriculture statistics, the country’s raisin production peaked at 86,000 metric tons in 1981 before plunging to less than a quarter of that figure by the end of the 1980s. -- Raisins Give Hope to Afghan Farmers
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