New Idea in Gardening

  Written by: Hesamuddin Hamdard

 In recent years, some gardeners in Afghanistan have used their talent and grew a fruit that was not so famous in this country. Writer/producer AEPO has talked to a gardener, Baba Mohammadi in Bagh-e-Aroq village, Qarabagh, district of Kabul Province.

Baba Mohammadi says:

The new fruit is called nectarine. Nectarine is a kind of fruits with smooth, thin, brightly red colored skin and rich firm flesh. About 5 years passed as I cultivated nectarine’s trees. Before I was cultivating grapes but as the fruitage of nectarine was better than grapes, I prefer to grow nectarine.

Each nectarine tree yields about 50 kilograms fruits and its profit is more than grapes. We get 200-300 thousand Afghanis benefit per year from selling nectarine and we had been gaining about 40-50 thousand Afghanis from the selling of grapes each year.

Use of Natural Resources:

 Abdul Hamid, a resident of Guldara village, Qarabagh district of Kabul province says:

I make ornaments and decorative materials from the banal branches of trees and get benefit of them.

At the beginning, I made a cage for my roaster. I thought that many other decorative things also could be made from tree branches. Then I made an airplane, a tank, and a horse. As these objects are very big and could not be carried easily, I decided to make some small decorative objects too.

The making of airplane took about 4 months; tank 40 days and horse took 15 days.

The price of each piece of these objects reaches about 50 thousand Afghanis.