{"id":27158,"date":"2025-02-10T11:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T11:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=27158"},"modified":"2025-02-10T11:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T11:17:12","slug":"afghanistan-benefiting-from-a-30-surge-in-cotton-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2025\/02\/afghanistan-benefiting-from-a-30-surge-in-cotton-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan benefiting from a 30% surge in cotton production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The National Statistics and Information Authority (NSIA) announced on Monday, that Afghanistan is benefiting from a 30% surge in cotton production compared to the previous year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a press release, the NSIA under the Islamic Emirate has conducted its first-ever cotton survey across 15 provinces in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>According to the survey, a total of 159,000 metric tons of cotton have been produced this year.<\/p>\n<p>The statement mentioned that the provinces with the highest cotton production include Helmand, with 80,000 metric tons; Balkh, with over 34,000 metric tons; Kandahar, with over 11,000 metric tons; Jowzjan, with nearly 11,000 metric tons; and Nangarhar, with over 5,000 metric tons.<\/p>\n<p>The NSIA also announced that, for the first time in 1403 solar year, it has used remote sensing technology, including satellite imagery interpretation, to identify cotton-growing areas in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Based on this data, it has been determined that 105,000 hectares of land have been used for cotton cultivation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to satellite imagery analysis, cotton was cultivated in 17 provinces this year, showing a 12% increase in cotton cultivation area compared to the previous year. Helmand had the largest cotton-growing area with 50,000 hectares, while Kapisa had the smallest with 66 hectares.<\/p>\n<p>The authority added that cotton is one of Afghanistan\u2019s key export commodities, with cotton and cottonseed exports valued at 273 million USD in the past year.<\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Statistics and Information Authority (NSIA) announced on Monday, that Afghanistan is benefiting from a 30% surge in cotton production compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":20370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,179,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-economy-business","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":144,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27159,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27158\/revisions\/27159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}