{"id":24936,"date":"2026-10-28T15:10:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T15:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/28\/shurandam-cement-factory-kunduz-first-phase-launch-jobs\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T15:10:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T15:10:20","slug":"shurandam-cement-factory-kunduz-first-phase-launch-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/28\/shurandam-cement-factory-kunduz-first-phase-launch-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"First Phase of Shurandam Cement Factory in Kunduz to Soon Commence Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first phase of the cement production factory in the Shurandam area of Kunduz province will soon begin operations with an investment of 150 million dollars. The daily production capacity of this phase is approximately 1,500 metric tons, and with the completion of all three phases, the total daily production capacity will increase to 5,000 metric tons.<\/p>\n<p>This project is expected to create direct and indirect employment opportunities for thousands of people in the region. However, it remains to be seen whether the Taliban administration can manage the project in a way that brings genuine economic benefits to the people of Kunduz and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Given the difficult economic conditions and widespread unemployment, such projects are important under the Taliban administration. Nonetheless, the current infrastructure and management system must be capable of enabling the factory to fully produce and supply cement, contributing to the sustainable development of the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first phase of the Shurandam cement factory in Kunduz, with $150M investment, will soon launch, boosting production and creating jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24936","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\/24936","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=24936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}