{"id":29889,"date":"2026-05-19T06:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=29889"},"modified":"2026-05-19T06:05:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:05:33","slug":"icrc-supports-farmers-in-herat-by-distributing-agricultural-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2026\/05\/icrc-supports-farmers-in-herat-by-distributing-agricultural-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"ICRC supports farmers in Herat by distributing agricultural equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) covering Afghanistan said it has supported farmers in Herat through the distribution of agricultural equipment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"185\" data-end=\"313\">The organization wrote on X on Tuesday (May 19) that it distributed harvesting machines, silos, and tarpaulins to 250 farmers.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"315\" data-end=\"464\">ICRC also added that the farmers were trained on how to protect wheat from damage, reduce losses, and turn weeks of hard work into just a few days.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"466\" data-end=\"667\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The agricultural sector is one of the most important economic sectors in Afghanistan, with nearly 80% of the country\u2019s population relying on agriculture to meet their families\u2019 food and other basic needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) covering Afghanistan said it has supported farmers in Herat through the distribution of agricultural equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":29891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,9,984,981,6],"tags":[180,624,879,1897],"class_list":["post-29889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-soceity","category-news","category-economy","category-afghanistan","tag-herat","tag-icrc","tag-farmers","tag-agricultural-equipment"],"views":16,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29890,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29889\/revisions\/29890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}