by DOUGLAS WISSING
Purdue’s assistant director of International Programs, Kevin McNamara, says everyone involved is focused on enhancing Afghanistan’s agrarian society.
“Agriculture is very, very important. Agriculture there is very different from the U.S. In the U.S., agricultural production is about one percent of the economy,” he says. “In Afghanistan, it’s about one-third. In the U.S., agricultural production employs about two percent of the population. In Afghanistan, it’s about 80 percent.”
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