{"id":13973,"date":"2026-05-30T13:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/30\/balkh-chemical-fertilizer-factory-opens-agriculture-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T13:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T13:00:23","slug":"balkh-chemical-fertilizer-factory-opens-agriculture-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/30\/balkh-chemical-fertilizer-factory-opens-agriculture-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"New Chemical Fertilizer Factory Opens in Balkh Province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local officials in Balkh province report the inauguration of a new chemical and organic fertilizer factory in the region. The factory, built by the &#8220;Darakhtan&#8221; group at the cost of 45 million Afghanis, has created job opportunities for approximately 500 people.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Yasin Azizi, the laboratory director of the factory, stated that the production complex covers an area of 14 jeribs and has the capacity to produce 200 tons of liquid and solid chemical and organic fertilizers daily.<\/p>\n<p>According to the officials, producing quality fertilizers domestically can meet part of the farmers&#8217; needs and reduce dependence on imports. Balkh, known as one of the agricultural provinces in northern Afghanistan, stands to benefit from such facilities, which could have a positive impact on the region&#8217;s agricultural activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new chemical and organic fertilizer factory opens in Balkh, Afghanistan, creating 500 jobs and boosting local agricultural production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}