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Consumers in Europe will soon be savoring the sweet taste of Af-ghanistan. The United Kingdom’s leading pomegranate juice com-pany, Pomegreat, recently agreed to a pioneering deal with Afghanistan’s first juice concentrate facility. It is the first international company to purchase juice concentrate from Afghanistan, committing to import a minimum of 500 tons of pomegranate concentrate and 500 tons of fresh fruit from Omaid Bahar Fruit Processing Facility, a state-of-the-art facility established with the support of USAID. The Omaid Bahar Fruit

KABUL, Dec 26 (Reuters) – When a Taliban suicide bomber killed two people on the edge of the Afghan capital this month, there was another casualty – a global fruit juice business optimistically called “Spring Wish” which provided work for thousands of farmers across the country. Mustafa Sadiq’s empire had been expanding healthily, bringing in badly needed foreign capital, before the attack inflicted the kind of financial loss cash-strapped Afghanistan can ill afford. The pomegranate juice business was nearly wiped out in the split second

With a sip of fresh juice squeezed from Afghanistan’s sweet pomegranates, the Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock inaugurated Kabul’s new state-of-the-art agribusiness facility on October 15, 2009. The Omaid Bahar Fruit Processing Company established the modern facility with the support of USAID. The facility will produce and export juice concentrate and fresh fruit to countries in North America, Asia, and Europe. “This is not just a juice machine, it is also a time machine,” said Minister Mohammad Asif Rahimi. “It has taken us

Afghanistan’s pomegranate juice is renowned for its flavor within the country, but its benefits have largely been unavailable in other countries. That changed on November 21, when Omaid Bahar Processing Company, a modern juice processing facility established with the support of USAID, secured its first export deal. The deal marks the first export of any kind of Afghan juice to an international buyer