Purpose
TX ADT-5 works together with USDA, USAID, and Afghan businesses to bring the middle of the value-chain for excess apples from Pakistan back to Afghanistan.
Discussion
TX ADT-5, in partnership, is working to bring the middle of the apple value-chain back to Afghanistan, increasing the economy locally by creating jobs and lowering import/export and storage costs from outside the country. We have done this through agriculture education, building cool storage facilities, and creating partnerships between local growers and Afghan business owners.
Outcome
This project was done by utilizing human capital and personal knowledge. Though some funding was used from our partner organizations, the success of this story is that Afghans are now starting to reach out and create business relationships with each other, thus making them more self-sufficient while at the same time increasing their own economy.
This is the start of a business relationship between Kabul businesses and Ghazni Province grower’s associations, mainly from Kwaja O’mari apple growers, and is expanding to include other fruits and districts in Ghazni Province. This is keeping money within the Afghan economy as well as keeping any of the orchard production from going to waste.
This project was accomplished by working with local grower’s associations, the Provincial Director of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (DAIL), Sultan Hussein, the agriculture extension agent from Kwaja O’mari, USDA, USAID, and Kabul businessmen.
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| TX ADT poses with USDA reps and Kabul businessmen. |
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| Ghazni will provide an additional 10 metric tons of apples for juice to the Kabul juice factory. |
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