Ministry of Agriculture

Amena azizi
Director of Home Economic Department
Ministry of Agriculture
Kabul /Afghanistan

Some information about Afghanistan
Formal Name: Islamic State of Afghanistan
Local Name: Afghanistan
Local Formal Name: Dowlat-e Eslami-ye Afghanistan
Location: Asia
Status: UN Country
Capital City: Kabul
Currency: 1 Afghani = 100 puls
Main Languages: Pashto, Dari (Persian)
Main Religions: Sunni Muslim, Shiá Muslim

Afghanistan• Afghanistan, approximately the size ofTexas, is bordered on the north by
Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan,on the extreme northeast by China, on theeast and south by Pakistan, and by Iran onthe west.

Afghanistan

National Sport (Buzkashi)
Buzkashi is a traditional Afghani team sport played on horseback.
The steppes’ people were skilled riders who could grab a Goat or Calffrom the ground while riding a horse at full gallop. The goal of a player isto grab the carcass of a headless goat or calf, and then get it clear of theother players or pitch it across a goal line.

Afghan fumose danceSome Historical Places
This is the First andthe Largest Buddha
statue in the world,whichlocatesincentral province ingreatvalleyof(Bamiyan)

Traditional Dance (Attan)
Attan is a popular traditional Pashton/Afghan dance.
Participants move in circles while clapping their hands to therhythm (Dhol and Surnai) and spinning around.

• Attanisusually
performed at weddings,engagements
andsometimes at family
gatherings. Both men
and women perform theattan..

AFGHANISTAN- Afghanistan is land locked in thecentral of Asia and mountainouscountry.
- Afghanistan divided in 26 provinces
and 336 villages

populationAfghanistan population 30 million
Population in Major Cities in Afghanistan: Kabul
about 5 million, Herart about 2million, Jalallalbad
about 1 million and Mazar E Sharif about 1 million

Agriculture in general• Afghanistan is an Agricultural and mountainous
country more than 85% of our people areworking in Agriculture sector ,their incomes more
get through Agriculture and animal husbandry
productions ,Agriculture sector has vast area for
employment of our jobless human resource ,inAfghanistan every kind of crops growths likecereals crop, pulse ,vegetables, fruits, oil crop ,industrial crop and etc.

Agriculture in general (Con’t)• The main cereal crops of our country are wheat ,barley ,corn ,rice.
• The main pulses are bean, pea, soybean ,etc.
• The main oil crops are olive, sunflower, canola,
zeger kunjet etc.
• The main industrial crops are Sugar beet, sugar
cane ,cotton ,tobacco, olive .etc.
• The main vegetables are onion ,potatoes,tomatoes, pipers, eggplants, lady fingers, melon,watermelon, squish ,turnips ,carrot, etc.
• Themainfruits
areapples,grapes,
pomegranates ,apricot, almond, pistachios,mulberry, cherry, peach, fig, orange

Agriculture in general (Con’t)
Because of good quality of our productions in theinside and outside of our country specially for ourfruits and vegetables they has good markets .
Small industries of agriculture was developed
before war and after establishingof new
governments the majority of them reconstructedby private sector and now the row materials after
processing ,packing ,sorting exports (for example
maize, dry fruits ,cotton etc)

Organization chart of Home
Economic Department
Gnarl

Director of home economic

DeputyDirectorate of gender & youth

Member of youth

Directorate of food security

manager of income
generation
Project

Manager of gender

Admin
Technical member

Technical member

Duties and responsibility
Women’s associations to identify how toHome Economics Director can work with themto promote their involvement in agricultural.
Collaboration with the Ministry of Youth.
facilitate the establishment of rural youth
groups.
Provide training and technical support .
Assist in fund-raising to support rural youth
groups and women farmers’ associations. theexisting activities and networks of youthMajor challenge
Limited access to education andinformation.
limited on property ownership anddecision.
Lack of knowledge and awareness ofwomen.

Gender problem
Violation of women.
Low cash income for women.
No awareness on her right.

Gender mainstreaming in Agriculture

Background
In Afghanistan several projects.
focusing on sustainable system.
Extreme poverty of the rural
Population young people who have
local knowledge which is key in thevocational education and training
gender mainstreaming projects .

Useful Knowledge and Skills
gained through seminar• I was learned in the seminar gender

responsive PCM and PDM how canidentify a specific project.
• Gendermainstreaming
inhealth,education, media, political and so on.

TitleTitle of the project
Title

Economic empowerment of rural women
through vocational trainingObjective
To increase income of women byproviding vocational training.
To provide rural women with market
oriented vocational education trainings
to achieve economic empowerment
increase household income.

Activities
1.

Baseline survey on the need for vocational
training (poultry, bee keeping, food-processing,agricultural skills, etc.)2.

Gender-awareness workshops for men andwomen in the communities

3.

Hire experts

4.

Design training manuals

5.

Conduct vocational training and operation andmaintenance of equipment

6.

Provide equipment, seed, fertilizer, loan

7.

Provide training on business skills (marketing ect)8.

Exposure visits

9.

Exchange experienceExpected outcomes
1. Increase in income of women by20%
2. Women acquired vocational skills.
3. Women can run their small businesssmoothly