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Plantation Pests Rise Concerns of Farmers in Kabul
A huge number of framers, gardeners have expressed their concerns over the plantation pests in Northern part of Kabul city, stating that despite of the increasing of the harvests this year, the plantation pests have raised concerns.
They have also mentioned that none of the Governmental departments have yet to cooperate and help farmers on removing pests out of their plantation.
Gardening after agricultural is the second major job for the Afghans across the country but havening no access to the proper markets and the outbreak of diseases are the main challenges for both farmers and gardeners in Afghanistan.
Farmer Murwatullah said,” we are short of water,water is pumped, we have to buy fuel for generators, there are water dams which can easily water thousand acres of agriculture lands in our area, the Government should help us to resolve our problems.”
“Furthermore the district Governor of Mirbachakot Mawluddin has expressed his concerns over the out breaking of disease on grapes in his control area demanding the Government to hand us out and resolve our problems otherwise we will lose all our harvests for this year “.
“Meanwhile the farmers have local officials have urged that we don’t have access to foreign markets for boost our economy and selling our goods into abroad,the only market is Pakistan where we experience several challenges to see our goods reached into Pakistani Markets Mohmmad Usuf Mirbachakot district provincial council member said.”
Officials in Ministry of agriculture and live stock said we cant provide medicine for such disease because there is limit time for gaining the Harvest.
Head of the Laboratory department of the Ministry of Agriculture and live stocks Abdul Raouf Babori said.” Gardeners don’t pay attention while planting and during growing their plantation they only think how collect the harvest, if they want more harvest they should work hard in their gardens.”
The concerns of the farmers come after that more than 60% of Afghans earn their life through agriculture and gardening in the country.
Reported by Nabila Hafizi
Nooruddin Azizi, Acting Minister of Commerce and Industry, met with representatives from the ministries of foreign affairs, defense and interior of Malaysia, along with other senior officials, on Wednesday and called on Malaysians to invest in Afghanistan.
The visiting delegation is being led by senior diplomat Dr. Shazelina Zainul Abidin.
According to the IEA’s foreign ministry, the two sides discussed bilateral trade, holding a business communication conference to strengthen trade relations between the two countries, the trade balance between Afghanistan and Malaysia, and creating a market for Afghan products, including carpets, cotton, and minerals.
According to the ministry, at the end of the meeting, the Acting Minister emphasized the increase of investment from regional countries in Afghanistan and called on Malaysian investors to also invest in Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Interior says that Afghanistan has started exporting goods to Turkey via the Herat-Khaf railway line.
In a post on X, the ministry said: “Afghanistan’s exports to Turkey started in a calm atmosphere through the Herat-Khaf railway line.”
The ministry added that one train will run daily for a month and then two trains will run daily.
According to the ministry, the security of Khaf-Herat railway line is provided by the guards of the National Public Protection Agency.
Khaf-Herat railway project not only connects Iran and Afghanistan by rail, but also completes a 2,000-kilometer route along the east-west rail corridor from China, through Uzbekistan, to Afghanistan, to Iran, and on to Turkey and Europe.
As a landlocked country, this railway network will provide a safe route to connect with Europe via Iran’s railway network and Iran’s southern ports.
This railway line is strategic for trade between Iran and Afghanistan and will allow six million tons of goods to be sent between the two countries.
A joint expo between Afghanistan and Kazakhstan will be held in Kabul in the next four days, officials said on Sunday.
Officials of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce said that the two-day expo will be held for the purpose of expanding and strengthening trade relations between the two countries.
“This expo will be held as a follow-up of the Kazakh-Afghan international expo, which was held in the city of Astana, Kazakhstan, with the participation of a large delegation of the government and the private sector of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,” Abdulsalam Javad Akhundzadeh, the spokesman of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, said.
“At this expo, domestic products from different sectors of Afghanistan and the Republic of Kazakhstan will be put on display for two days.”
According to officials, 40 large Kazakh companies, and 40 large Afghan companies will exhibit their products.
Mohammad Saber Latifi, head of the Afghanistan International Expo Center, said that fruits, minerals and commercial services will be displayed at the expo.
During the expo, various memorandums of understanding for the trade of goods are also expected to be signed by companies.
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