People Taste

 written by: Hesamuddin Hamdard

Some points should be considered before starting a business. AEPO’s writer/producer has talked to Ilham, a resident of Kabul city who has taken into account people's taste.

Ilham says about his business, “When I graduated from university, I was interested to find a job. I started my work from the decoration of offices and private houses with my two friends about 5 years back.

In the beginning, we started our work with 15000 Afghanis but as we were purchasing items at retail price, we were not successful but later we earned some more money and now we buy the mentioned items at wholesale price.

We hang a big clock on the wall of the rooms and design different natural scenes on the walls. Now we continually get orders and our customers are increasing every day.”

Sieves Making:

AEPO’s writer/producer had a trip to Balkh province and there he has talked to Ilham, a resident of Mazar-e-Sharif city.

Ilham says, “It's my 20th year of making sieve. Nails, woods, and mesh are used in making sieves.

We buy 560 kilograms of willow wood and then we take them to the saw machine to saw them according to our need. 400-500 sieves would be made from the mentioned wood.

We spend about 16-17 Afghanis on each sieve and then we sell it for 26 Afghanis. Our customers the shopkeepers of the Kabul city who sell sieves.”