KABUL, Dec 7 (NNN-ANA) – The Taliban caretaker government in Afghanistan, has established a military unit, to protect the forests and prevent deforestation in the mountainous country, a spokesman of the government said, today.
Approved by the cabinet of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the 450-member military unit, would be deployed in both crop-yielding, such as pistachio and regular forests countrywide, deputy spokesman of the caretaker government, Inamullah Samangani, wrote on Twitter.
“Up to 100 people of the unit would be tasked in the national capital of Kabul and its adjacent areas, while 50 people each, in seven provinces with most forests, such as Kunar, Nuristan, Khost, Laghman, Paktia, Paktika and Nangarhar, to prevent illegal cutting of forests and smuggling of woods,” the spokesman added.
The Afghan government has taken measures to invest in the agricultural sector, as overall agricultural production, dramatically declined in recent years, due to drought, as well as, persistent fighting and instability in rural areas, according to Samangani.
