Afghan firms win $8m worth contracts

KABUL (Pajhwok): Afghan companies signed contracts worth more than $8 million for the country’s high-quality agricultural produce with international buyers during the five days of the Gulfood Exhibition held in Dubai.

Gulfood was held from Feb. 23 to 27 at the Dubai World Trade Center, which is known as the world’s biggest annual food exhibition with 4,500 exhibitors and tens of thousands of buyers and visitors attended.

Twenty-one Afghan traders, almost half Afghan businesswomen, displayed pomegranates, juices, apples, saffron, dried fruit, and nuts at the event.

Importers from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Spain, Malaysia, China, Turkey, India, Bahrain and the US signed more than $8 million dollars’ worth of contracts for Afghan figs, pine nuts, dried apricots, walnuts, almonds, juices, and saffron. Afghan traders signed deals more than $2.3 million at the 2013 Gulfood exhibition.

Afghan agri-businesses participate in Gulfood with the support of US Agency for International Development (USAID’s Pavilion, developed promotional materials and supported the traders in deal negotiations.

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