The Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MoIC) says over the previous nine months, more than 5 thousand tons of pine nuts have been exported abroad.According to MoIC, the total worth of the pine nuts amounts to $53 million, which has actually been exported to China, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, India, Italy, America, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, Turkey, Sweden, Ukraine and Belgium.&& This year, Alhamdulillah, our pine nuts exports have actually been great, we had the ability to dispatch as much as 5,400 lots to different countries, the price of which is around 53 million dollars,& & stated Abdul Salam Akhundzada, a representative for the MoIC.&& The biggest export of pine nuts was to China, which was around 2,200 heaps and was exported to this nation through the air and land corridors,& & he added.However, some traders want to expand the export of this product.

According to them, the harvest of pine nuts this year will amount to 11,000 thousand metric tons.Economic experts meanwhile have stated that the officials of the MoIC must discover worldwide markets for other agricultural products such as saffron, figs and pistachio nuts as well.The post Over 5,000 lots of pine nuts exported abroad in last nine months: MoIC initially appeared on Ariana News.