Bakery

Written by: Hasamuddin Hamdard

Mohammad Sediq is a resident of Sayad, district of Kapisa province. He has a bakery in the bazaar of Sayad. He takes less benefit and earns more income.

Mohammad Sediq says: I bake about 1500 kilograms cookies daily and some days, I bake 4000-kilogram cookies.  I sell one-kilogram cookies at 65 Afghanis and I get 5 Afghanis benefit per kilogram. All of the workers are my family members and I don’t have to pay them wages. My customers are from Kapisa, Kabul, and Panjshir province and some neighboring cities. My ordinary monthly income reaches to 250 thousand Afghanis.  

from Milk to Cheese:

Animal husbandry is one of the main sources of Afghans in rural areas. Some ranchers could not sell the dairy products easily and they might face some problem but Raeis Khan is a rancher, lives in Chamtala, Khairkhana area, Kabul city, who has more customers, says:

I produce 14 kilograms raw cheese, 21 kilograms yogurt and 10 kilograms curd. I sell yogurt and curd to the shopkeepers and sell the raw cheese as a vendor on the back of my bicycle.

The only reason of my success of having more customers is cleanliness. When I come home, I wash the cheese's bags in boiled water and then put them under the sun rays, and in order to keep the raw cheese from dust, I spread a cloth on it. I have found so many customers in different parts of Kabul city. I sell a bag of raw cheese at 10 Afghanis and my daily income reaches to 900 Afghanis.