KABUL, Feb 21 (NNN-ANA) – Afghanistan’s state-owned bread factory, Silo-e-Markazi or central silo, located in the national capital, Kabul, reactivated and resumed production yesterday, after decades of production stoppage, chief of the bread producing body, Khayal Mohammad Maher, said.
“After hectic efforts, we have reactivated the Silo-e-Markazi, to resume production and for the first time over the past 30 years it begun baking breads and cakes,” Maher told reporters here.
The factory, which has been badly damaged since the 1990s, and stopped functioning since 1992, would be fully reconstructed to increase its products.
“Two more branches of the silo are situated in the southern Kandahar and western Herat cities, and authorities would soon buy necessary equipment to fully reactivate the said factories,” Maher said.
According to the official, the silo begun its production with baking 200 kg of flour, to make bread and cake daily, and in the future the capacity would increase to five tonnes per day.
This is the first-ever state-run production entity that has been reactivated since the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in mid-Aug.
Presently a total of 130 persons, including 12 women, are working in the bakery section of the silo, to produce bread and cake, and the products are sold in 36 stalls across Kabul city.– NNN-ANA
