authors
Mohammad Akbar Nadeerpoor, BL Patil, Israrullah Yousafzai and Nasratullah Kakar

abstract
Almonds have been valued throughout the world for their delicious taste, and increasingly, for their nutritional value. The present study evaluates the growth in area, production, productivity and export performance of almonds in Afghanistan. The analysis was made using compound annual growth rate analysis (CAGR), instability index and tabular analysis. The area, production and productivity of almonds in world grew at the CAGR of 0.98, 1.70 & 0.71% with instability of 3.44, 7.48 and 7.42% respectively. Similarly in Afghanistan area, production and productivity of almonds in world grew at the CAGR of 6.33, 8.08 & 1.65% with instability of 19.56, 41.66 and 55.47% respectively. The% share of area and production of almonds in Afghanistan as compared to total area of almonds cultivation in world grew from 0.42% to 1.52% and 0.42% to 1.31% respectively. The majority of dried fruits export of Afghanistan during 2020 registered a negative% change when compared to 2018 except for almonds without shell whereas its value decreased by 3.77% Among dry fruits export the share of value of almonds export stood at third position with a share of 6.95% (for almonds without shell) and 2.06% (for almonds with shell) with first two places being occupied by dried fig (30.49%) and raisins (25.66%).