{"id":13570,"date":"2026-05-24T08:30:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T08:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/24\/icrc-equipment-250-farmers-balkh-reduce-harvest-losses\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T08:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T08:30:27","slug":"icrc-equipment-250-farmers-balkh-reduce-harvest-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/24\/icrc-equipment-250-farmers-balkh-reduce-harvest-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"International Committee of the Red Cross Provides Equipment to 250 Farmers in Balkh Province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced that it has distributed wheat harvesters and tarpaulins to 250 farmers in Dawlatabad district of Balkh province. This assistance aims to reduce post-harvest losses and strengthen food security in the area.<\/p>\n<p>According to the published information, the distributed equipment helps farmers carry out their harvesting processes more efficiently and prevent damages caused by improper storage. Reducing post-harvest losses is one of the serious challenges facing farmers in many agricultural regions of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The International Committee of the Red Cross emphasized that supporting farmers means supporting food security and strengthening local communities. Balkh is considered one of the important agricultural provinces in northern Afghanistan, and a large portion of its district residents are engaged in farming and agricultural production.<\/p>\n<p>Relief organizations are focusing on supporting the agricultural sector at a time when many rural families rely on agricultural yields for their livelihoods, and any decrease in production or increase in losses can have a direct impact on their economic situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ICRC distributes wheat harvesters and tarpaulins to 250 farmers in Balkh to reduce post-harvest losses and boost food security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}