Distant mountains with Pistachio forests of Farkhar village - Afghanistan

In the 1970s Badghis and Takhar provinces of northern Afghanistan were covered with productive pistachio forests and earned substantial revenue from their nuts. These forests almost totally disappeared in just three decades and with them the associated revenue and ecological benefits.

 

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