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...week or so ago I bought some pomegranates in my local fruit market in New Delhi. They were huge and glowed bright red, and the small juicy crystals of flesh inside tasted as good as they looked. But the most remarkable thing about the fruit was the box they came in. It was stamped in big, bold letters with the words "Kandahari Pomegranates. Export Quality. Products of Afghanistan...
...often that you see a product made in Afghanistan. The country is the world's biggest opium producer, but that's not an export government officials shout about. Yet before its descent into chaos in the late 1970s, Afghanistan was famous for its pomegranates, grapes, apricots and other fruit. Since then, as war cut the old trade routes and Afghanistan became isolated, traditional markets have been lost. So what were these pomegranates doing in my local fruit shop? And if they were available in Delhi, why aren't they in North America or Europe, where pomegranate popularity has boomed thanks...
...trade routes that were broken." Since the Taliban regime fell six years ago, USAID has helped plant more than a million pomegranate trees, Stoddard claims, and this year Afghan farmers harvested between 33,000 and 44,000 tons (30,000 and 40,000 metric tons) of the fruit, of which some 1,102 tons (1,000 metric tons) were flown or trucked out. Most of it went to India, Dubai and Singapore, but tiny quantities found their way to London and Vancouver. Alas, strict phytosanitary requirements, which guard against the importation of bugs, have so far kept Kandahari pomegranates...
...HUDS with one-third of its produce, including apples, cranberries, squash, and potatoes, according to Zdeb.In the early spring, only 6 percent of HUDS food is produced by local farms because harsh New England winters limit what can be grown.HUDS receive cartons upon cartons of local produce from Costa Fruit and Produce Co. Instead of relying on smaller farms in New England to meet Harvard’s 25,000-meals-a-day demands, HUDS turned to Costa to send loaded trucks from its 24-hour warehouse in Boston to Harvard’s dining halls every morning. While there...
Difficult it may be, but the President's new fondness for diplomacy is bearing some fruit. On North Korea, Bush approved talks led by a top Clinton negotiator, Christopher Hill, who eventually delivered a deal to dismantle Pyongyang's nuclear reactors. And Robert Malley, a Clinton Middle East negotiator, argues that Bush stands a better chance than Clinton did of creating a Palestinian state. Says Malley: "The Israeli and Palestinian leaders share a personal bond and need for success, President Bush has more time left than Clinton did, and the Arab world is being actively courted...