Exports of Afghan pine nuts have increased recently. The Ministry of Industry and Commerce announced.

Afghanistan exported pine nuts worth 1,800 million Afghani in 2023.

Afghanistan exported at least 2,000 tons of pine nuts worth $23 million in the past five months. The Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MoIC) said.

Officials said that, Afghanistan has dispatched 12 tons of pine nuts to Europe.

18-tone black pine nuts of Afghanistan are exported to Italy.

Xinhua reports that the pine nut business has changed the lives of the Nuristan farmers since Afghanistan started exporting it to China via the air corridor.

Pine nut trees grow wild in Afghanistan, mostly in the mountainous provinces of the conflict-battered and economically impoverished country.