Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation Minister H.E Anwarul Haq Ahadi, Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Investment (ACCI)’s Chief Executive Officer Mr. Sayed Zaman Hashimi, representatives of the Industrial, Commercial and Manufacturing companies, members of the Private Sector and Governmental agencies attended the First Saffron Exhibition organized in Kabul.
H.E Ahadi said, “This year, Afghanistan has produced 21 tons of saffron, and the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation is committed to improving the quality, process, and packaging of saffron.”
Mr. Hashimi thanked saffron producing companies for their standardized packaging of saffron and expressed his concerns about Iranian saffron trafficking and said that it has negative effects on the internal Afghan products.
He also asked the Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Finance and Agriculture to provide the required facilities to export Afghan saffron to Indonesia, Malaysia, American and European countries.
He, furthermore, said that in the first quarter of the current solar year we had 40 million dollars exports, in the third quarter of the solar year 800 million dollars and we hope that at the end of the current solar year the amount of our exports will reach to one billion dollars.
Acting President of the Finance and Administrative Directorate of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce Mr. Mustafa Majedayar said that they have made and shared their best plots for finding markets for the Afghan internal products especially, saffron.
From all over Afghanistan, 40 industrial, commercial, and manufacturing companies exhibited their products.
The First Saffron Exhibition has been organized in Kabul
