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Afghan pomegranate pickers jobless as fruits rot at shuttered border with Pakistan

Asad Iqbal by Asad Iqbal
October 14, 2021
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Afghan pomegranate pickers jobless as fruits rot at shuttered border with Pakistan

In this file photo, a farmer sorts and packs pomegranates at a garden in Kandahar. — DhartiNewsTV/File

Afghanistan’s joyful pomegranate period has actually started, yet this year thousands of tonnes of the juicy red fruit threat rotting on vehicles obstructed at the often shuttered border with Pakistan– leaving thousands of farm workers out of work.

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With its sharp and also crunchy, ruby-red seeds secured inside a leatherlike red rind, the pomegranate is renowned for its wellness advantages, and also is just one of one of the most vital plants in the country’s south.

But the fruit is ripening as Afghanistan locates itself engulfed in a plethora of situations that have actually metastasised considering that the Taliban seized control 2 months ago.

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“We have 15,000 farm workers in this region who have actually been given up because the profession has actually been paralysed as well as the fruit is deteriorating,” Haji Nani Agha, who heads the Fresh Fruits Union in Kandahar, informed AFP.

In the color of pomegranate shrubs, the melon-sized fruits fill up cloth bags and also cages being packed onto vehicles soon to head in the direction of the Spin Boldak boundary with Pakistan.

Yet there their voyage comes to a halt.

Islamabad has actually cut sales tax on imported fruits to zero in a quote to increase profession from its neighbour, however also tightened up controls on regular Afghans attempting to cross over, fearing unlawful access.

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It has actually created a tug-of-war in between Pakistani authorities and Afghanistan’s new leaders, who have often closed the border in objection.

Exporters wanting to offer their wares have found themselves stuck for days and also weeks in scorching warmth.

“It is a catastrophe for all of Afghanistan, because all of Afghan profession undergoes this boundary,” Agha stated.

Typically, between 40,000 and also 50,000 tonnes are exported throughout this border to Pakistan, as well as additionally on India and also the Gulf states every year.

However so far, only 4,490 tonnes have left the country, according to Abdul Baqi Beena of the Chamber of Commerce in the southern city of Kandahar.

“These items are waiting to be marketed, yet the more they are postponed, the a lot more their high quality degrades and also the even more their sale value plunges,” he said.

Also prior to the remarkable power change, Afghanistan’s farming market had actually been hard-hit by dry spell and intense fighting in a variety of provinces.

For several years, the previous Western-backed Afghan federal governments as well as global contributors attempted to encourage farmers to give up farming poppies for illegal opium production and also instead expand fruit– such as pomegranates.

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