Afghanistan Plans to Plant Green Tea
TEHRAN (ANA)- The Afghan caretaker government announced plans to plant green tea Khost province in the Eastern parts of the country.
Aimed at enhancing local products, the cultivation of the valuable plant as a pilot project was launched recently in the Gurbuz district of the province, reported the state-run Bakhtar news agency.
Farmers in the war-torn country have had limited experience with tea cultivation over the past decade, but have yet to achieve the desired results.
The experts have been supervising the tea cultivation, its harvest and processing to achieve the goal as part of efforts to boost domestic products, said the report.
Afghanistan reportedly imports tea worth more than 50 million U.S. dollars annually.
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