Afghanistan: Canal Project Turns Wastelands into Farmlands in Northern Afghanistan

Apr 4, 2017 | Military Technologies
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The rehabilitation of Sharqi canal has revived many areas of wasteland and turned them into productive farmland, irrigating over 13,000 hectares. Besides the new canal embankment, the rehabilitation project also fortified riverbanks and created channels to distribute water from the canal to different fields. The project, budgeted at 57 million afghanis (about $853,000), started in June 2014 and the irrigation network opened for public use in November 2015.