In the beginning of May 2003 in the region of Surkhabat, we distributed 7,500 apple and apricot trees and 20,000 seedlings of acacia and willows for villagers to plant them by themselves.

We procured apple and apricot seedlings from the Agricultural Experiment Center under the Agricultural Ministry of Afghanistan with the price of 25 AF per one seedling-one third of the going price. We have mainly gathered varieties of acacia and willows that are resistant to climate of high land from the area of Gilgit. However, a large number of seedlings died during the transportation.  It was quite difficult to deliver seedlings from remote places taking days of time.

There are two aims of the Green Project-
1) Raise the moisture level in the soil by forestation, 
2) Make the environment where we can harvest more fruits and solve the continuing problem of vitamin shortage among villagers by letting them eat these fruits.

Mr. Tashiro, the director of Kabul office, handed saplings a village man