{"id":31254,"date":"2026-11-08T10:37:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T10:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=31254"},"modified":"2026-11-08T10:47:38","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T10:47:38","slug":"icrc-provides-solar-dryers-to-50-women-farmers-in-balkh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2026\/11\/icrc-provides-solar-dryers-to-50-women-farmers-in-balkh\/","title":{"rendered":"ICRC provides solar dryers to 50 women farmers in Balkh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegation covering Afghanistan has provided solar dryers to 50 women farmers in Mazar-e-Sharif, the capital of Balkh province.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a post on X on Sunday (Nov. 8), the agency said the women had also received equipment and training to turn locally grown fruits and vegetables into dried products.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ICRC, the initiative is providing women with opportunities to generate income.<\/p>\n<p>Agriculture is one of Afghanistan\u2019s main economic sectors, with nearly 80 percent of the country\u2019s population relying on it to meet their families\u2019 food and other basic needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegation covering Afghanistan has provided solar dryers to 50 women farmers in Mazar-e-Sharif, the capital of Balkh province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":31255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[984,981,24,7],"tags":[344,405,624,2180],"class_list":["post-31254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-economy","category-women","category-headline","tag-mazar-e-sharif","tag-balkh","tag-icrc","tag-women-farmers"],"views":11,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31254","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=31254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31256,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31254\/revisions\/31256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}