Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Bank have launched a joint program aimed at supporting ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan will ask international donors next month for $4 billion to revive its agricultural sector, but it could be a hard sell with another massive crop of opium expected this ...

VIENNA (Reuters) -The total area of land in Afghanistan on which opium poppy is grown shrank 20% this year, according to a U.N. estimate issued on Thursday, a further drop since farming of the raw ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, May 20 (Reuters) - Lush green fields hug a canal snaking through the dusty landscape of what was once Afghanistan's breadbasket, feeding off water from a newly restored dam ...

The Iowa National Guard is preparing to take on a new mission - farming. A 60-member team of members of the Iowa Air and Army National Guard will deploy in June for a one-year mission working with ...

WASHINGTON -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Jan. 7 he would leave shortly for Afghanistan to analyze the agriculture economy in that country and evaluate U.S. efforts to improve it. At a ...

CHARLES CITY, Iowa -Thanks to Dora Hayen of Swartzrock Implement in Charles City, Kevin Stewart keeps up on local farm news while being deployed in Afghanistan. Hayen gathers up each copy of Agri News ...