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Balkh ghee plant restarts production after 3 decades

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KABUL (Pajhwok): A government-owned ghee-producing plant has resumed operations after three decades of closure in northern Balkh province.

The plant produces eight tonnes of ghee from cottonseed in 24 hours, but officials say they are striving to enhance this capacity to 150 tonnes with the use of vegetable resources.

Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal, the acting minister of finance, told an official ceremony in Mazar-i-Sharif the government was trying to revive similar industrial units in other provinces.

Arghandiwal asked the private sector . . .

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