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A man stops to buy bread at a red-light lit bakery in Kabul at dusk. Wheat bread, called naan, is a staple of Afghan meals—bakeries also sell the oval loaves to soldiers. NATO forces hope to persuade opium farmers to switch crops to wheat and vegetables. The country's economy remains based on agriculture, most of it small-scale.