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Afghanistan:Father of Saffron

Written byFred Petrossian

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Read this post in Malagasy
Posted 14 October 2007 22:47 GMT

Safrang writes about a man who used to be a opium poppy growing farmer and then he shifted to grow saffron.The blogger says this man who is called “father of saffron” by government, helps other farmers to do the same thing.Safrang has published a photo of this saffron farmer.

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