Bamiyan to Export 100,000 Tones of Potatoes to Uzbekistan

DID Press: Afghanistan’s Chamber of Commerce and Investment has announced an agreement to export 100,000 tones of potatoes produced in Bamiyan province to Uzbekistan.

According to the chamber, the initiative followed a pilot potato cultivation project carried out in Bamyan through cooperation between the Afghan and Uzbek chambers of commerce. The project has paved the way for exporting the province’s potatoes to the Uzbek market, with local authorities in Bamyan and the province’s Chamber of Commerce and Investment also contributing to the process.

As part of the agreement, Sayed Karim Hashemi, head of the Taliban-run Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Investment, and Davron Vakhabov, chairman of Uzbekistan’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry, agreed on the export of 100,000 tonnes of potatoes to Uzbekistan.

The chamber said preparations for the export contract are still underway.

Meanwhile, the first consignment of Bamyan potatoes, comprising eight trucks, has departed through the Hairatan border crossing for the Uzbek city of Termez.

The chambers of commerce of both countries have facilitated contacts between traders and farmers and coordinated arrangements for purchasing, marketing and transporting the produce.