Afghanistan: Afghanistan’s Saffron Growers Worried Taliban Will Ban Heavily Female Workforce

Oct 31, 2021 | Arshad Mehmood, Media Line
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Saffron has the potential to help ameliorate Afghanistan’s dire economic difficulties. The country has long produced some of the best saffron in the world, and the spice has largely replaced opium cultivation in some areas because it is a more valuable crop. However, a desire by the Taliban to limit women in the workforce threatens to hamper saffron production.