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State Pao: Afghan Evening News Clips 15 August 2015

Central Intelligence Agency · 2015-08-15 · 49 pages · text from the file's own layer

This is an unclassified, For Official Use Only news compilation produced by the US Embassy Kabul Public Affairs Office and distributed by the Open Source Center on 15 August 2015. It was later approved for release by the Central Intelligence Agency in 2018. It gathers Afghan, Pakistani and international press reports on an anti-Pakistan protest in Washington, China's support for Afghan peace talks, the combat debut of Afghan MD-530 helicopters, hostage releases in Ghazni and unemployment in Kunduz. It contains nothing about UFOs.

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Samangan farmers harvest 500 tones of almond — Pajhwok Afghan News
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Aibak —— Although cold weather has affected the almond harvests in
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500 tonnes of almond and would earn 214 million afghanis of their
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Noor Mohammad, an official at agriculture department, told Pajhwok
Afghan News the figures had been obtained from Hazrat Sultan and
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Samangan has famous quality of almonds and is one of the main
products in the province apart from pistachio and walnuts.
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Last year, almond harvests in the province had suffered due to cold
weathers but this year also the cold weather had affected the crop
otherwise the province is capable of producing more than 2,000
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Ajab Khan, 52, said he was satisfied with the harvests this year.
"I'm happy with this year, but last year I could not earn anything
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Haji Mohammad Amin, a dried—fruit trader in Aibak city said he was
selling Samangan‘s almonds in Kabul while some other traders
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