"I saw pistachios, almonds, wheat, pomegranates, grapes.
The increase amounts to a troubling signal for Afghan and Western officials who have spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to disrupt opium-smuggling operations and the insurgent networks that profit from them, while also cajoling poppy farmers to switch to legal crops like wheat, pomegranates or saffron.
The officials are saying they're convincing more and more people to farm mint, safron, wheat, pomegranate--all these schemes they think might one day replace opium.
Kibbutz Neot Semadar, whose name is Hebrew for "beautiful blossom," raises biblical crops like figs and olives, dates, wheat and pomegranates.
The province is the vital breadbasket of Afghanistan, where the river valley is a fertile ground for pomegranates, wheat and other fruits and grains.
Opium purchases for medicinal uses and substitute crop programmes with wheat, saffron and pomegranates will not stanch the demand for illicit drug production.
Created by Michele Oka Doner, the terrazzo floor consists of metal, stone and mother-of-pearl in shapes representing seven kinds of crops mentioned in the Bible: figs, pomegranates, wheat, barley, grapes, olives and dates.
These were known as the seven species: olives, figs, dates, pomegranates, wheat, barley and grapes.
Foods richest in B9: beans; lentils; spinach and turnip greens; asparagus; romaine lettuce; broccoli; pomegranate; wheat bread.[35].[35]
He was growing wheat, grapes, almonds, and pomegranates.
Part of Ebla's prosperity stemmed from its agricultural hinterland, in the rich plain of northern Syria, where barley, wheat, olives, figs, grapes, pomegranates, and flax were grown and cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs were raised.
