{"id":15702,"date":"2026-06-21T10:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T10:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/06\/21\/paktika-distributes-crop-drying-machines-to-farmers\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T10:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T10:45:15","slug":"paktika-distributes-crop-drying-machines-to-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/06\/21\/paktika-distributes-crop-drying-machines-to-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Distribution of Crop Drying Machines Begins in Paktika Province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Agriculture, Irrigation, and Livestock of Paktika, under the Taliban administration, has announced the start of distributing vegetable and fruit drying machines to 35 farmers in the Mata Khan district of the province.<\/p>\n<p>This program is implemented in cooperation with the organization &#8220;ActionAid,&#8221; aiming to support farmers and improve the management of agricultural products. Local officials stated that these machines can help reduce post-harvest losses and increase the shelf life of products.<\/p>\n<p>Paktika province is one of the agricultural regions in the southeast of the country, with a significant portion of its population engaged in cultivating and producing agricultural products. Drying vegetables and fruits is a common method for long-term preservation and for supplying products outside the harvesting season.<\/p>\n<p>So far, no further details have been released regarding the selection process of the beneficiary farmers or the costs of this program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paktika starts distributing vegetable and fruit drying machines to 35 farmers to reduce post-harvest losses and improve crop management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15702","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=15702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}