ARGHANDAB, Afghanistan — Abdul Hamid’s pomegranate trees were scarred from bullets and shrapnel. The river was low and the land dry. There was no profit anymore from the fruit that made his ...

Afghanistan has more varieties of the fruit tree than any other part of the world, leading botanists to suggest this is the birthplace of pomegranate cultivation.

Afghanistan is telling the world that it has a trendy, new replacement for its dreaded poppy crop: sweet, juicy pomegranates.

Clogged with overloaded trucks, construction firm yards, hardware shops and police checkpoints, the Jalalabad road on the outskirts of Kabul is an unlikely place for an agricultural revolution.

The Pomegreat juice company buys quality pomegranate concentrate from all over the world and now has its sights set on Afghanistan. "Pomegranates from Afghanistan are amongst the best in the world ...

For people in Afghanistan, the fruit has a multiplicity of values- besides being used as a commercial beverage. Sunday, Jul 20, 2025. New Delhi o C. Subscribe. Sign in. My Account.

ARGHANDAB (Afghanistan): President Hamid Karzai boasts that Kandahar’s pomegranates are the best in the world; others say they contain the Almighty’s miracle cures. Desperate poets liken their ...

Pomegranate trader Syed Zaman Agha said that the price of the fruit in Afghanistan had increased recently but had actually fallen or stayed the same in Pakistan and India, so more fruit was ...

I am well-aware of the image of my country as a war-torn society where people either live in the perpetual fear of violence or cheer it. I know that it's mostly violence and suffering that has ...

The Pomegreat juice company buys quality pomegranate concentrate from all over the world and now has its sights set on Afghanistan. "Pomegranates from Afghanistan are amongst the best in the world ...

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