The Fighting Season
An Afghan man seen hard at work during the wheat harvest in a field in Sanjaray in Arghandab District, which is west of Kandahar City, Afghanistan. Arghandab is part of the green belt which includes Zhari and Panjwai Districts which is the most contested ground in the country where insurgents are locked in a bitter struggle with Canadian and US lead coalition forces. Wheat is considered one of the many alternative crops that could replace poppy production in this area. Yet the Taliban and drug lords force civilians to grow poppies, which in turn support the insurgency.