A number of women in Kabul, working with diligent hands and hopeful hearts to cultivate mushrooms using straw, lime and bran, say they need cold storage facilities to expand their businesses. Around three years ago, 25 women from the Charasiab and Darulaman areas of Kabul were trained in mushroom cultivation with financial support from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
Today, each of these women is engaged in mushroom farming at home and playing an important role in supporting their families' income. Breshna Taheri, a resident of Darulaman and founder of the "Sadafi" mushroom farm, told Pajhwok Afghan News that before establishing the farm and learning mushroom cultivation, her family's economic situation was poor as her husband was unemployed.
With her husband's support, she now grows mushrooms in the basement of their home in Charasiab. She said the harvested mushrooms were packaged and taken to a cold storage facility they built by themselves in Darulaman, from where they were sold to shopkeepers in Kabul. Taheri explained that she learnt mushroom cultivation through a three-month FAO training program, during which participants also received raw materials.
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