Afghanistan: Livestock and Fish Farming Bring Self-Sufficiency to Rural Afghans

Oct 28, 2018 | World Bank
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Parwin is one of hundreds of people in the district to benefit from the National Horticulture and Livestock Project (NHLP), operating under the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL). So far, the project has distributed poultry to 250 beneficiaries and built 16 fishery farms in Kama district, according to Zia-ul-Haq Fazli, NHLP Provincial Officer in Jalalabad. Each poultry beneficiary receives 27 chickens and 3 roosters, while each fishery farm beneficiary receives 1,000 fish. “Almost all of our poultry farm beneficiaries are widowed women, the disabled, and poor families,” says Zia-ul-Haq. “Our aim through this project is to help communities with their livelihood, and encourage as many women and men as we can to be self-sufficient, and in the long run to turn this into businesses.”