page_title: Jalrez District
section_title: Economy and services
hierarchical_section_title: Jalrez District / Economy and services
caption_attribution_description: A group of kids ham it up for the camera in a small village just outside of combat outpost Apache in the Jalrez Valley in Wardak province, Afghanistan, March 12, 2009. The newly emplaced outpost occupied by soldiers assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment is helping to fund renovations to the nearby school.
context_page_description: Jalrez is a district in the west of Maidan Shar, Maidan Wardak Province, Afghanistan. The main town lies at Jalrez, which is 62.9 kilometres southwest of the centre of Kabul via the main Kabul-Behsud Highway. The district is a major producer of potatoes.
context_section_description: The district is a major producer and exporter of potatoes, but also produces apples, onions, rice, wheat, barley, mung beans, spinach, carrots, almonds, apricots and spinach. In 2008 there were 134,700 livestock in the district, of which 50,000 were sheep.
  As of 2018 Jalrez has nine high schools, 11 middle schools and nine primary schools, run by the Ministry of Education (MoE) in conjunction with local councils and the education commission of the Taliban. There were a reported 358 teachers, of which 41 were women. The five health clinics in the district, consisting of one comprehensive health centre, three basic health centres and one sub-health centre as of 2018 were owned by the state and operated by the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA).
caption: Local children in the Jalrez Valley
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