Contracts for rebuilding 17 irrigation networks signed

KABUL, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL) and private companies on Saturday, an official said.

Deputy agriculture minister, Abdul Qadir Jawad, during the contracts’ signing ceremony in Kabul, said the projects would cost 119 million afghanis to be paid from the ministry’s development budget.

Besides bringing under irrigation 7,500 acres of farmland in Kabul, Logar and Parwan provinces, the execution of the projects would also prevent water wastage and increase agriculture production by 20 percent, he said.

He said six of the irrigation networks . . .