{"id":2256,"date":"2025-11-26T14:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/11\/26\/kandahar-fig-exports-boost-afghanistan-taliban\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T14:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T14:00:14","slug":"kandahar-fig-exports-boost-afghanistan-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/11\/26\/kandahar-fig-exports-boost-afghanistan-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"Kandahar Fig Exports Surge to Over 39,000 Tonnes, Tripling Last Year\u2019s Total"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock of Kandahar has announced that more than 39,000 tonnes of figs have been exported from the province to various countries this year. According to officials, this marks a significant increase compared to last year, when just over 13,000 tonnes were exported.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Hanif Haqmal, the department\u2019s spokesperson, told the media that Afghan traders carried out this year\u2019s exports, with the majority of shipments sent to regional and international destinations, including the United Arab Emirates, India, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, China, Canada, Nepal, Germany, and Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Despite economic challenges and political restrictions under Taliban rule, Afghan exporters have managed to secure new markets for domestic products, particularly Kandahar figs. However, experts say the agriculture sector continues to face major obstacles due to a lack of coherent support and targeted policymaking from the Taliban administration.<\/p>\n<p>Economic analysts assert that with appropriate support for farmers and exporters, agricultural products could play a significant role in improving rural household incomes and increasing national revenue. So far, however, the Taliban has not introduced a clear plan in this regard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kandahar exports over 39,000 tonnes of figs in a year, tripling last year&#8217;s total despite economic and political challenges under Taliban rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2256","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\/2256","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=2256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}