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Report: World Bank Pledges $35 million for farm water management program in Afghanistan

Many experts say that Afghanistan has enough water to meet the needs of its people, however, poor management of this valuable resource has left the country with shortages in many areas, including the north.  Tolo news reported today that the World Bank has pledged $35 million worth of financial aid for a farm water management […]

November 9, 2010 · admin · No Comments
Posted in: Afghanistan's Economy, Environmental Issues, Reconstruction and Development

Afghanistan To Establish Food Quality Testing Labs

Yesterday, Tolo news reported that Afghanistan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL) said that food quality testing labs will be established in the provinces of Kabul, Herat, Nangarhar and Balkh. The purpose of these four labs will be to prevent the importing of low-quality conserved food and agricultural products. The labs will also play […]

October 27, 2010 · admin · No Comments
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Development projects completed in Samangan, projects started in Zabul, and 116 Afghans graduate in Kunar with skills needed to help develop their country

15 development projects were recently completed in the Aibak district of Afghanistan’s northern province of Samangan, according to a NATO news release today. The release stated that “the projects included the construction of two water tanks, the digging of four wells, gravelling of more than 125 miles of rural roads, brick-lining more than 1,900 meters […]

October 19, 2010 · admin · No Comments
Posted in: Afghanistan's Economy, Education, Job Creation, Reconstruction and Development

Program to further strengthen Afghanistan’s agricultural sector

Today in Kabul, United States Ambassador Karl Eikenberry told reporters that the United States and Afghanistan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation, and Livestock (MAIL) have signed an agreement where 260,000 small commercial farmers in Afghanistan, some of them women, will be provided with subsidized access to 13,000 metric tons of certified wheat seed varieties and nearly […]

October 5, 2010 · admin · No Comments
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Video: Bridge dedication ceremony in Farzah District, Kabul province

October 1, 2010 · admin · No Comments
Posted in: Job Creation, Reconstruction and Development

Road construction projects underway in Faryab, Kabul, Parwan and Bamiyan provinces

Earlier this week, Afghanistan’s Public Works Ministry announced that a 7.7 kilometer road will be built in Maimana, the capital of Afghanistan’s northern province of Faryab.  The project will cost $2.4 million and it is scheduled to take one year to complete.  The ministry said that the government has given the construction work to a […]

September 30, 2010 · admin · No Comments
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Revenue increases in Samangan and Herat

In Afghanistan’s northern province of Samangan, the head of the coal mining enterprises told Pajhwok Afghan News (PAN) that revenues from the Dara-e-Sauf coalmine has tripled. 300 million afghanis has been made in the first six months of this year, compared to the 102 million afghanis during the same period in 2009. According to the […]

September 28, 2010 · admin · No Comments
Posted in: Afghanistan's Economy, Job Creation, Security in Afghanistan

Afghanistan and China sign agreement on railway construction

Afghanistan’s Ministry of Mines and the state-owned China Metallurgical Group Corporation (MCC) signed an agreement today in Kabul in which the Chinese firm agreed to construct a railway corridor in Afghanistan. MCC will construct a railway corridor from Aynak Copper Mine in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Logar to eastern Torkham and northern Hairatan border towns. […]

September 22, 2010 · admin · No Comments
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New hospital to open in Khost; development projects announced in Farah and Kandahar

This fall, Khost City will have a new 100-bed hospital, according to a NATO news release. Work is nearly complete on the hospital, which will have an emergency room, male, female and children’s wards, mid-wife and maternity wards, x-ray and oncology departments, laboratories,  inpatient and outpatient care facilities, as well as office space for medial […]

September 20, 2010 · admin · No Comments
Posted in: Afghanistan's Economy, Education, Health News, Job Creation, Reconstruction and Development

2 vocational schools to be constructed in Logar

Afghan media reported recently that in Pul-e-Alam, the capital of Afghanistan’s Logar province, two new vocational schools will be constructed – one related to agriculture and the other to mechanics.  Students will study for two years and will be given a certificate. The goal is to help train Afghans so that they can find jobs […]

September 16, 2010 · admin · No Comments
Posted in: Education, Job Creation, Reconstruction and Development

Health center to be built in Herat; Farah hospital to get stable source of power

Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Health has announced that a new health center will be built in the Injil district of Afghanistan’s western province of Herat. A groundbreaking ceremony for the center was held last Sunday. The structure will be built by the the Italian Provincial Reconstruction Team.  Dr. Suraya Dalil, Afghanistan’s Acting Minister of Public […]

September 8, 2010 · admin · No Comments
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One road completed and work on another started in Kandahar province

Afghan media has reported that a 3 kilometer road was inaugurated in Kandahar city earlier this week.  The road was built in the Khwajak Baba area of the 4th district. The 11 million afghanis (approx. $240,000) of funding for the project was provided by the Public Welfare Department. Also, in the Dand district of southern […]

September 2, 2010 · admin · No Comments
Posted in: Afghanistan's Economy, Reconstruction and Development