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In March 2008, CNFA began implementation of USAID-funded AFSA project with the overall goal of CNFA’s AFSA project to increase the incomes of farmers in Afghanistan and to achieve this goal, CNFA and its AFSA partners during the last 2 years have focused on three primary objectives:
1. Establishing a sustainable and improved commercial input supply and farm service infrastructure in Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul, Ghazni, Kabul, Laghman and Kunar provinces of Afghanistan.
2. Ensure that farmers have affordable, timely and reliable access to quality inputs and services; such as, Seeds, Fertilizers, Crop Protection Products, Tools, Veterinary products, and agriculture extension Services.
3.Linking farmers to expanding cash markets opportunities so that they fully benefit from productivity and quality improvements made possible from the use of new quality inputs.

AFSA is committed to a process that is sustainable, locally driven, in the interests of the Afghan farmers, and has a positive impact on rural incomes. CNFA has drafted a set of Guiding Principles for the Alliance, based on lessons learned from its experience working in the Afghanistan agricultural sector from year 2004 to now:
- Through the seven privately owned FSCs, AFSA is providing distribution of inputs for commodities and sub-sectors for which national, regional, or international market opportunities exists; AFSA members will also provide linkages to output markets for goods produced.
- The primary aim of AFSA is to increase rural incomes through increased access to quality inputs, and to provide a complete package of services among poor, smallholder farmers of Afghanistan.
- In working toward this aim, AFSA has placed particular emphasis on the create of a commercially profitable, competitive, private, owned Farm Service Center network.
- AFSA is promoting recognition for the value improved inputs usage, and providing an outlet for farmer education, agricultural productivity and cash market linkages helping to reduce poverty and promote broader development goals in Afghanistan.
- AFSA is promoting an unbiased membership and participation of a representative group of participants involved in increasing access to input among farmers in Afghanistan.