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Mullah Neoka is a wheat farmer in Afghanistan's Herat province. He explains how he's benefitted from a UK-supported project to clear land mines:

“Before this area was de-mined no one came here because it was unsafe. Now we can”.

“When my land was cleared I found I had 60% more than I thought and it is good for growing crops”.

My son used to go to Iran which was dangerous, but now he drives a tractor on my cleared land”.

The Department for International Development has supported the HALO Trust, an international de-mining organisation, in a five-year project to safely remove land-mines across Afghanistan, so that communities can reclaim their land.

Herat was once known as 'the bread basket of central Asia'. Depsite it's barren appearance, the land here is incredibly fertile, as long as it is irrigated in a controlled way. Now that HALO have cleared Mullah Neoka's fields of land mines, he's been able to start working them again.

To find out more about how UK aid is working in Afghanistan, please visit: www.dfid.gov.uk/afghanistan

Image: Catherine Belfield-Haines/Department for International Development
Date Taken on 1 December 2011, 00:00
Source Mullah Neoka and his sons, digging a new future in Herat, Afghanistan
Author DFID - UK Department for International Development
Camera location34° 37′ 35.14″ N, 61° 04′ 45.04″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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