KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Fig fruit weighing 6,000 tons worth $34 million has so far been exported to India, Pakistan and other countries from southern Kandahar province over the past eight months.
About 30,000 tons of figs – the third in value and production after pomegranates and grapes in Kandahar --- are annually exported from the province abroad.
Thousands of people are associated with the business of fresh and dried figs. Small traders buy figs in districts and bring them to Kandahar City, the provincial capital, where big . . .
