Wheat the new darling crop in Afghanistan

Winnipeg Free Press. ^ | July 23, 2008. | AP staff

[fanfan]

The AP is reporting that due to current grain prices, the Afghans are abandoning Opium, in favour of Wheat.

See more at link.

[fanfan]

Hat Tip, STYKY.

[fanfan]

[SolidWood]

Dude what? WEED? /sarc

Seriously, this is good for us and the Afghanis. Eat wheat!

[null and void]

They will be horrified when learn that the reason wheat prices are up is because wheat is used to make alcohol???

[Sacajaweau]

Abandoning drugs in favor of....FOOD?? Imagine that!!

[DainBramage]

Its still a flour crop.

[Devilinbaggypants]

LOL...you'd think they would but...alas like opium...so long as your selling it to the infidels then your your doing Allah's will and your still qualified to receive those 72 virgins!

[fanfan]

They will be horrified when learn that the reason wheat prices are up is because wheat is used to make alcohol???

Shhhh!

The wheat goes to make bread for the people who can't afford corn, because we use that for ethanol.

Got it?

[Cindy]

and more good news...

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=50550

“U.N. Agency Declares Afghan Province ‘Nearly Poppy-Free’”

By Navy Lt. Neil Myers
Special to American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, July 21, 2008

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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=50399

“Afghan Agricultural Center Contributes to Better Security”

By Army Spc. Anna Perry
Special to American Forces Press Service

SHINDAND AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, July 3, 2008

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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=50149

“Coalition Builds Capacity in Southern Afghanistan”
By Jack Holt
Special to American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, June 9, 2008 –

PRESS RELEASE SNIPPET: ““Several are agricultural projects, which are important to sustaining the villages,” he said. “It’s a very rural society down here — very, very austere. So this is very important. We handed out almost 200 tons of wheat over the wintertime, and there’s wheat being grown all over Afghanistan.

“And actually, what I’ve been told is the wheat price is higher than the poppy price, so we may have had some good luck in this,” McGrath added.”

[Tamar1973]

Who says the free market doesn’t work?!?! LMAO!

[Redleg Duke]

"Abandoning drugs in favor of....FOOD?? Imagine that!!"

Better put the Libertarians on this forum on suicide watch.

[fanfan]

Thanks Cindy.

:-D

[fanfan]

Why?

Libertarians eat too, you know.

[Cyber Liberty]

They’re fools. Corn is what they should do....

[fanfan]

Maybe it is too dry for corn???

[Cyber Liberty]

I really don’t know. You’re probably right.

[Redleg Duke]

"Libertarians eat too, you know."

THEY DO?

Well, what do you know!

[fanfan]

I don’t know either.

That’s why I pinged Gabz and Garden Girl. :-)

[fanfan]

It’s amazing what you can learn from fellow FReepers, eh?

[mouse_35]

I don’t think the growing season is hot enough long enough for corn.

[Marie2]

No, they don’t, they just sit around and get high. :)

[mdmathis6]

The heroin users of Europe are going to be complaining of inflation and scarcity..of their favorite drug.

[fanfan]

Really?

[Cindy]

You’re welcome fanfan.

I like good news.

[patton]

...then they eat.

Munchies, you know.

;)

[Salamander]

Technically, the proper phrase is “getting the munchies”.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Next year, the opium buyers will offer more money to the farmers than the going rate for wheat. The profits in heroin are huge. They can afford it.

[fanfan]

Actually, I was just listening to a book...the coming China wars......The gangsters make more money off fake Louis Vuitton bags with less risk, than they do on heroin.

[fanfan]

Ack.....

I meant to say ‘Hi Doc”.

:-)

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“Ack! Ack,ack!”
Quote from “Mars Attacks.”

[gardengirl]

I have no idea about either climate/wheat or corn in Afg. Have sent vegetable seeds, via missionaries and military to Afg. I live in eastern NC, and there is some wheat grown here but not much, mostly corn and soybeans now that eeeevvviill tobacco has mostly been done away with.

When I was growing up, the only poppies I knew about were the ones on the Wizard of Oz, and a big patch of the bright red ones growing down by our creek. Sigh.

[RetSignman]

Addict: “Man, that was a great high, what was it?

Dealer: “Something new out of Afghanistan..wheat juice”

[fanfan]

Thanks GG.