KABUL, Mar 30 (NNN-ANA) – “Scores of people, including 50 women, worked in my firm, to produce pickle, in the past, but nowadays only two persons are working with me,” female Afghan entrepreneur, Nafas Gul Jami, said, with a sigh.
Putting on display her products in a stall, at a three-day Agricultural Products Exhibition, which opened here on Saturday, Jami said, the U.S. sanctions on Afghanistan have badly undermined businesses and worsened the country’s already fragile economy.
“Female Afghan businesspersons are in need of economic support and encouragement, and we need to find markets for our products to boost our businesses,” she said.
The 45-year-old woman pointed to an increasing poverty, a high rate of unemployment, isolation of Afghanistan and the freeze of seven-billion-U.S. dollar-assets of the country, by the United States, following the U.S. military defeat and troop withdrawal from the Central Asian nation in Aug, last year.– NNN-ANA
