Afghan farmers switch to strawberry planting amid poppy ban

STORY: Afghan farmers switch to strawberry planting amid poppy ban DATELINE: April 20, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:02 LOCATION: KANDAHAR, Afghanistan CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various shots of Strawberry fields in Kandahar province 2. SOUNDBITE1 (Pashto): MOHAMMAD ALLAH NURI, Agriculture official 3. various shots of Strawberry fields and a shop in Kandahar province 4. SOUNDBITE1 (Dari): AZIZ AHMAD AHMADI, Farmer 5. various shots of Strawberry fields and a shop in Kandahar province STORYLINE: Afghanistan's Kandahar, Helmand and Zabul provinces have always been close to the heart of the world's opium, and later heroin, trade. Poppy cultivation has been outlawed, but not for the first time. Almost every government in Afghanistan's war-torn history has tried to do the same. The perennial problems the country's leaders face are very few means of alternative ways of making a living in the undeveloped mountains, and that the profits of the trade are simply much more than are to be found in other, legal, pursuits.