Australian company denies deal with Taliban to set up cannabis processing plant

Australian company Sefarm has denied an agreement with the Taliban on the processing and export of Afghan cannabis.

The company has denied any agreement with the Taliban on the Afghan cannabis process, saying the company has no products and only works in the field of medical consulting.

Meanwhile, the Taliban’s Interior Ministry announced yesterday that a hashish processing plant was to be built in Afghanistan as a result of an agreement with an Australian company.

A Taliban spokesman, Saeed Khosti, tweeted that officials from the Ministry of Interior’s counter-narcotics department had met with a representative of the company (Cpharm) and that the company was to build a hashish processing plant in Afghanistan.

“By establishing this factory, Cpharm will use cannabis produced in Afghanistan to make spices and a kind of cream,” Khosti wrote.

“Currently, cannabis is grown on 20 acres of land in Afghanistan, and the company needs 30 acres of land to cultivate cannabis, and the company is set to invest $ 430 million in this sector,” he added.

According to a Taliban spokesman, all stages of the contract with the company have been completed and the project will officially begin in the coming days.