This was as we were taking off and heading back to Kabul. These hills, many of them anyway, were actually terraced for agriculture, though each ledge couldn't have been more than a few feet wide, and it's too cold there for rice, and it doesn't seem worth it for wheat. Maybe that is where they grow the cabbages and carrots and so forth. Our agriculture guy didn't know. He did say, though, that lots of Badghis Province is covered by native wild pistachio forests - and that the pistachios are actually a decent source of income for local insurgents, since they can get upwards of $5 a kilo for them.
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