{"id":17985,"date":"2026-07-20T07:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T07:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/20\/grape-prices-kandahar-drop-65-percent-production-increase-export-challenges\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T07:00:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T07:00:48","slug":"grape-prices-kandahar-drop-65-percent-production-increase-export-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/20\/grape-prices-kandahar-drop-65-percent-production-increase-export-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Grape Prices in Kandahar Plunge 65% Amid Increased Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While grape production in Kandahar province has increased by about 1,000 tons this year, reaching over 206,000 tons, farmers and traders report an unprecedented drop in prices. According to them, grape prices in the markets have fallen by up to 65%, causing significant losses for orchard owners. They cite export challenges as the main issue, stating that obstacles in transporting and selling the product to foreign markets have saturated the domestic market and led to the sharp decline in prices. Kandahar is one of the country\u2019s key grape-producing provinces, with a large portion of its population relying on orcharding for their livelihood. Any disruption in agricultural exports, particularly during harvest season, can directly impact the income of thousands of families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grape prices in Kandahar have dropped 65% despite a rise in production, causing major losses for farmers due to export issues and market saturation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17985","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=17985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}