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6 agriculture warehouses put into service in Ghazni

6 agriculture warehouses put into service in Ghazni

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8 Nov 2016 - 19:40
6 agriculture warehouses put into service in Ghazni
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8 Nov 2016 - 19:40

GHAZNI CITY (Pajhwok): Six renovated and well-equipped warehouses for agriculture products were put into service in southern Ghazni province on Tuesday.

Governor Abdul Kareem Matin during told the inauguration ceremony that the warehouses were approved and construction work on them started three years back by the Ministry of Counternarcotics under the Good Performance Initiative (GPI) programme.

He said the storehouses were equipped with power and air conditions and also had electricity-generating machines.

He said earlier there was no place in Ghazni to preserve agriculture products as fruits and vegetables and farmers had option but to sell their harvest early against low prices.

Each of the warehouses have the capacity of storing nearly 1,000 tonnes of agriculture items, the provincial agriculture, irrigation and livestock director, Abdullah Tasal, told Pajhowk Afghan News.

He said the storehouses were constructed keeping in view standards and had been currently put at businessmen’s disposal for free.

He said this year onion harvest was excessive but was sold for very low price. From now on, they would purchase onion and other agriculture products and store them at the warehouses, he said. Then they would sell the products at appropriate time inside the country or export them abroad.

Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI)’s Ghazni chapter deputy head, Hayatullah Salimi, said the onion and potato yield was unprecedented in the province this year, however, their prices were much lower.

He said businessmen had decided to purchase onion and potato from market and export them at a proper time after processing.

He said there was a dire need for cold storage in Ghazni and the warehouses couldn’t cope with all issues though relatively beneficial

However, a gardener, Allah Mohammad, who owns four huge apple orchards, said every year his apples were rotted.

He had to sell the apples against low prices because there was no proper place to store the fruit, he said, asking the government to establish cold storages in districts.

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