The Taliban has confirmed the export of 600 tons of Afghan cotton to Turkey via Iran. This shipment was sent using the Khaf-Herat railway and the Iranian railway network to Turkey.
Details of Cotton Export
Mohammad Ashraf Haqshenas, spokesman for the Ministry of Public Works of the Taliban government, provided details of this export on Thursday, "October 30," through a news post on his X page. The export of cotton is one of the measures increasingly being carried out through Iran and Central Asia due to the closure of trade routes between Afghanistan and Pakistan for over a year.
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Importance of Cotton in Afghan Exports
Cotton is considered one of the important export items of Afghanistan. Nooruddin Azizi, the Minister of Industry and Commerce of the Taliban government, announced in the month of Asad this year that 10,000 tons of cotton from Afghanistan had been experimentally exported to Uzbekistan. Recently, Uzbekistan has also committed to purchasing another 100,000 tons of cotton from Afghanistan.
These developments in the cotton export sector reflect the Taliban government's efforts to expand trade relations with neighboring countries and utilize alternative trade routes, especially through Iran. Given the existing economic and political challenges in Afghanistan, the development of exports could accelerate economic improvement and help create new jobs.
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