GPFA Supplies Trees and Skills to Develop Afghan Family-Owned Businesses in Partnership with Village Leaders
70,000 Trees Create Orchard, Nursery and Woodlot Businesses in Afghanistan.
Kabul, Afghanistan – Following a flurry of spring planting activity in the
Guldara District in the Shamali Valley of Afghanistan, the Global Partnership for
Afghanistan (GPFA), a New York City-based nonprofit, today reported that more than
70,000 trees are now in the ground as a result of the organization's village-based
tree business development program. GPFA supports its activities from funds provided
by private donors, small foundations, and community organizations in the U.S. committed
to helping Afghanistan reduce poverty and regreen its environment.
Through plantings that began last year, farmers in the Guldara District are expected to develop family orchard, nursery and woodlot businesses that could yield as many as 800,000 new trees and hundreds of new family businesses within several years. This initiative is designed to help Afghanistan-once considered the "orchard of Central Asia"- rebuild its orchard and forestry businesses.