(3 Jul 2005) SHOTLIST
Uruzgan province
1. Aerial of barren mountains
Tirin Kowt, capital of Uruzgan province
2. Wide of provincial governor's house
3. Various of US forces
4. Various of distribution of seed and fertiliser intended as aid to farmers who have given up poppy cultivation
5. Cutaway photographer
6. Close up corn seed
7. Various of a farmer carrying sack of corn
8. Wide of dignitaries seated at a ceremony to mark start of seed aid distribution
9. Director of USAID (United States Agency for International Development) in Afghanistan Patrick Fine (left) and Afghan Minister for Agriculture Obaidullah Ramin (right)
10. Man's face
11. Director of USAID in Afghanistan Patrick Fine walks to podium
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Patrick Fine, USAID Afghanistan director:
"We want to see if the programme will work here. If the programme is successful in Uruzgan now, then we will have a larger programme in Uruzgan and the rest of the country."
13. Wide of audience
14. Provincial governor Jan Mohammed Khan
15. Close up of Uruzgan governor Jan Mohammed Khan
16. Afghan policeman
17. Afghan flag
STORYLINE
United States and Afghan officials initiated an aid programme in the central Afghan province of Uruzgan on Saturday, a day after fresh fighting in the area left 25 insurgents and six Afghan soldiers dead.
The fighting came after three months of bloodshed which has seriously threatened progress toward peace since the removal of the Taliban in 2001.
USAID (United States Agency for International Development) is helping the Afghan government to implement a programme of seeds and fertiliser assistance to the farmers of Uruzgan, seen as a reward for their efforts in reducing poppy cultivation in the province.
Year on year reduction from 2004 to 2005 is more than 50 per cent in all six districts of Uruzgan province, according to USAID.
USAID's Afghanistan director Patrick Fine said the programme may be expanded.
"We want to see if the programme will work here. If the programme is successful in Uruzgan now, then we will have a larger programme in Uruzgan and the rest of the country."
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