The Commerce and Industry Department of western Farah province says 15 factories have stopped operating in the province due to lack of electricity, with many people losing jobs. Afshin Hakimi, an official of the commerce and industry…
Residents of Gardez city, the capital of southeastern Paktia province, say they are fed up with noise and air pollution being created by factories operational in residential areas. Moin Shah, a resident of Ariana Pump area in Gardez…
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).has established solar power systems for 15 factories owned by women at a cost of $225,000 in northern Balkh province. Wahab Al-Irani, UNDP regional official, said the power system was aimed at supporting…
Residents of western Badghis province are complaining about economic hardships due to unemployment and urge the government to establish factories in the province. Provincial officials say they are making efforts to attract investors and establish factories. Mohammad Juma,…
Prolonged power outages have forced owners of factories in Kabul to reduce their staff by 40 percent, the Kabul Chamber of Industries and Mines (CIM) says. However, Da Afghanistan Breshna Shirkat says the problem of power blackouts is…
More than half of factories in this capital city of eastern Nangarhar province have been closed down due to power shortage, rendering more than 10,000 people jobless. Factory owners and the Chamber of Industry and Mines of Nangarhar…
Steel mills owners in southern Kandahar province say their electricity shortage issue could not be resolved so far and if the problem continues, most of factories would stop functioning. Besides tens of other factories at the Industrial…
The Chamber of Commerce and Industries in eastern Nangarhar province on Thursday said electricity shortage had forced 80 factories to shut down following the bombing of power pylons in the Salang Pass. Due to the closure of these…
Kabul Municipality has closed two factories in Mewa Market in capital Kabul for producing substandard pickles and violating health rules. Kabul Municipality in a Tweet said that Environmental Health Department of the municipality during an assessment of some…
Many factories have been closed down in southern Kandahar province due to lack of electricity, with only a few operating by using fuel, industrialists say. Fazlullah Meshkani, director of the Kandahar Industrialists' Union, told Pajhwok Afghan News…
Producers of vegetable oils in northern Baghlan province say that most of flaxseed oil factories in the province had to be closed due to the shortage of raw materials. Salahuddin Jabbarzada, head of a flaxseed oil factory in…
Eighty percent small factories have been closed in southeastern Paktika province due to lack of raw material and economic problems, rendering 2000 people jobless, owners say. They say closures of border crossings with neighbouring countries and banks’ related…
Officials of the Chamber of Commerce and Investment, and some traders in northern Balkh province say that shortage of raw materials in the provincial capital and inactivity of banking services have caused some factories to suspend their activities…
Nearly 250 million afghanis have been invested in southeastern Paktia province on goods’ producing factories, employing hundreds of people, an official said on Sunday. Abdul Naseer Alamyar, head of the Paktia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI), told…
Local officials on Tuesday said three villages have cleared from militants and four narcotics processing factories destroyed in Argo district of northeastern Badakhshan province. Provincial police spokesman, Sanaullah Rouhani told Pajhwok Afghan News that four drug factories were…
Factory owners in eastern Nangarhar province on Thursday said they might go bankrupt if duty on imports was not increased. They criticized the government for not supporting local factories and resolving their problems concerning electricity, land and security.…
About 200 factories that were closed down in protest against power outages have resumed production in southern Kandahar province. Ten days back, hundreds of industrialists closed their factories and staged a protest demonstration against the non-availability of electricity.…
Industrialists and investors on Sunday closed as many as 200 factories in the capital of southern Kandahar province to protest against prolonged power outages. The protesters, who had gathered in front of the press club in Kandahar City,…
The inauguration of a power sub-station on Saturday enabled at least 102 factories to resume production in northern Balkh province, an official said. The substation worth $1 million was installed at the Ali Sher Nawai industrial park in…
A groundbreaking ceremony marking the construction of 19 new industrial factories was performed in capital Kabul on Tuesday. Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal, president’s senior advisor on economic affairs, laid the foundation stones of the $105 million private sector venture.…
