uction of textiles, soap, furniture,
shoes, fertilizer, and cement; handwoven carpets; natural gas, oil,
coal, copper

Agriculture: largely subsistence farming and nomadic animal husbandry;
cash products - wheat, fruits, nuts, karakul pelts, wool, mutton

Illicit drugs: an illicit cultivator of opium poppy and cannabis for
the international drug trade; world's second-largest opium producer
after Burma (950 metric tons in 1994) and a major source of hashish

Economic aid:
recipient: $450 million US assistance provided 1985-1993; the UN
provides assistance in the form of food aid, immunization, land mine
removal, and a wide range of aid to refugees and displaced persons

Currency: 1 afghani (AF) = 100 puls

Exchange rates: afghanis (Af) per US$1 - 1,900 (January 1994), 1,019
(March 1993), 850 (1991), 700 (1989-90), 220 (1988-89); note - these
rates reflect the free market exchange rates rather than the official
exchange rates

Fiscal year: 21 March - 20 March

@Afghanistan:Transportation

Railroads:
total: 24.6 km
broad gauge: 9.6 km 1.524-m gauge from Gushgy (Turkmenistan) to
Towraghondi; 15 km 1,524-m gauge from Termiz (Uzbekistan) to Kheyrabad
transshipment point on south bank of Amu Darya

Highways:
total: 21,000 km
paved: 2,800 km
unpaved: gravel 1,650 km; earth 16,550 km (1984)

Inland waterways: total navigability 1,200 km; chiefly Amu Darya,
which handles vessels up to about 500 metric tons

Pipelines: petroleum products - Uzbekistan to Bagram and Turkmenistan
to Shindand; natural gas 180 km

Ports: Keleft, Kheyrabad, Shir Khan

Airports:
total: 48
with paved runways over 3,047 m: 3
with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 5
with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 2
with paved runways under 914 m: 15
with unpaved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 3
with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m: 14
with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 6

@Afghanistan:Communications

Telephone system: 31,200 telephones; limited telephone, telegraph, and
radiobroadcast services; 1 public telephone in Kabul
local: NA
intercity: NA
international: one link between western Afghanistan and Iran (via
satellite)

Radio:
broadcast stations: AM 5, FM 0, shortwave 2
radios: NA

Television:
broadcast stations: several television stations run by factions and
local councils which provide intermittent service
televisions: NA

@Afghanistan:Defense Forces

Branches: the military st