{"id":83388,"date":"2016-11-22T08:20:37","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T08:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/kandahar-exports-tons-of-grapes-to-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2016-11-22T08:20:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T08:20:37","slug":"kandahar-exports-tons-of-grapes-to-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/kandahar-exports-tons-of-grapes-to-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Kandahar exports tons of grapes to Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"393\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/11 Novomber\/22 Nov\/Kandahar Grips.jpg\" width=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KANDAHAR CITY (SW): Officials at the Kandahar Chamber of Commerce and Industries (KCCI) said that this year as much as 5,732 tons of grapes worth of $ 1.2 million have been exported to Pakistan. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Baqi Bita, the deputy for the KCCI told Salam Watandar that the amount of exports could have been two times bigger if Pakistani authorities had not closed&nbsp;Spin Boldak border point. He said that for the time being, Kandahar&rsquo;s grapes are exported to Pakistan alone, but they are trying to ease ways for exporting it&nbsp;to other countries as well.<\/p>\n<p>Haji Nanai, the head for union of fruit sellers in Kandahar, said in this regard that the traders would benefit more if the government eases ways for export. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The officials at the Kandahar Chamber of Commerce and Industries&nbsp;stated that efforts to export Afghanistan&rsquo;s fruits by air to various parts of the world are underway since 2008, but so far they have not been able to get desireable results.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANDAHAR (SW): Officials at the Kandahar Chamber of Commerce said that this year as much as 5,732 tons of grape worth of $ 1.2 million have been exported to Pakistan.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-83388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}