Due to former officials’ negligence and corruption, 2,427 acres of the Canal Department’s land in eastern Nangarhar province could not be retrieved from 1,147 grabbers, Pajhwok Afghan News has reliably learnt. Land grabbed by individuals range from a…
Construction work on a canal costing more than six million afghanis has begun in Lashkargah, the capital of southern Helmand province, officials said on Sunday. At the launch of the project, Helmand Mayor Mullah Ansari told the media…
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has provided in aid agricultural tools worth $592,000 to the Canal Department of eastern Nangarhar province, officials said Wednesday. Officials of the Canal Department said that the tools would be used in…
A canal constructed to secure river water from a salt mine in the Namak Aab district of northern Takhar provinces has been destroyed, residents complained on Sunday. The canal was built to irrigate nearly 10,000 acres of land…
The construction of a canal irrigating hundreds of acres of land has been completed in central Parwan province, an official said on Thursday. The canal, 1,500 metres in length, had been constructed to modern standards in the limits…
The construction of a 650 meters irrigation canal has been launched in Paron, the capital of eastern Nuristan province, an official said on Wednesday. Governor Hafiz Abdul Qayyum told Pajhwok Afghan News the canal would be built at…
An irrigation project watering 5,000 hectares of land in the Chahar Burjak district of southwestern Nimroz province has been completed, an official said on Wednesday. Governor Mohammad Same told Pajhwok Afghan News the implementation of the project would…
Water and Energy Minister Ali Ahmad Usmani on Wednesday inaugurated reconstruction work on a major canal in western Herat province. Usmani said that the World Bank (WB)-funded project would cost 110 million afghanis and take 1,000 days…
A contract for rehabilitation of an important canal in eastern Kunar province has been inked and the project’s completion would help irrigate thousands of acres of land. Local officials say the Salar canal which originates in the Paich…
The agriculture and livestock minister on Thursday said he would investigate long-term lease contracts for land plots part of the canal project in eastern Nangarhar province. Asadullah Zameer told this to a gathering at the Governor’s House in…
