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GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR AFGHANISTAN 1. Begin to rebuild a small farm by donating three fruit tree saplings . ... .$60 2. Plant success by providing necessary fertilizer and pest control additives for one farm ..$100 3. Give a family the tools to plant and cultivate their tree farm ..$100 4. Provide ten fruit saplings to a start-up farm . ... ..$200 5. Help launch a female farmer in the poplar tree nursery business which provide stock, special varieties and cuttings to other farmers ..$600 6. Provide a poplar or willow grove for an Afghan female farmer. Smaller than a woodlot, willow groves can be harvested in one year for weaving and in three years for timber. One 30 tree grove....... ... ..$600 7. Give an exiled Afghan family a fruit orchard, ongoing technical and marketing support and intercropping vegetable garden ..$1,500 8. Donate a scholarship for one year to a university or technical high school student in Afghanistan to study horticulture or agro-forestry. You will provide desperately needed long term skills and employment ..$3,900 9. Send a farmer to school. Each of twelve planned GPFA Farm Field Schools will offer hands on extended courses at all levels of practical horticulture skills and agro-forestry for fifteen farmers ... $3,750 10. Help harvest, harness and conserve precious water supplies so vital irrigation systems. Support the building of an irrigation system that can sustain twelve tree farms....................$5,000 11. Start up a farmers co-operative to link regional farmers to broader markets, provide governance, farm skills, transportation, combined contracts, and access to critical business, financial and legal assistance. .................$6,000 12. Build an underground cold storage space where farm fresh produce can be preserved until the optimum selling period. Provides storage for the output of ten orchards plus stacking and packing equipment ...$7,000 13. Build underground cold storage for an entire farm village of 50 families!......................$35,000 14. Invest in research and development at the Guldara Demonstration site in Kabul Province. New, hybrid and ancient plant materials are collected, tested and developed for adaptability, output, pest and drought resistance and growth rates. A two year large site expansion.................................................$40,000 |