The Afghanistan National Construction Company is working on the construction of the irrigation canal with 286-kilometer length which begins from Kaldar district of Balkh province and ends in Andkhoy district of Faryab province.
Officials of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) have said that 70 percent of work on the 1st phase of the mega economic project of the Qush Tepa Canal project has been completed. “70 percent of construction work on the first phase of the project has been completed and about 7000 people have been provided with job opportunities in the project, the first phase will be completed in the sooner future,” Zabihullah Amiri chief of the project said. Work on Qush Tepa Canal is one of the most vital and major agricultural and economic projects in the country is going on in the country’s northern zone. More than 3,000 constructional machineries are working at one time on the project.
The Afghanistan National Construction Company is working on the construction of the irrigation canal with 286-kilometer length which begins from Kaldar district of Balkh province and ends in Andkhoy district of Faryab province.
Successfully construction and completion of the project costing up to 60 billion Afghani within five years, has been said to bring a great change in the history of the country’s economy. Hundreds of acres of lands will be irrigated, once the mega project is completed. The high-ranking officials of the Islamic Emirate (IEA) have started paying visits to the project. Recently, National Security Advisor and Special Representative of Uzbekistan for Afghanistan Abdul Aziz Kamelov in a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) Mullah Abdul Ghani Beradar said that with the consideration of all shares and privileges of Afghanistan from the project, his country also wants its water share from the project and the necessary cooperation will be done with Afghanistan in the implementation of the project.” The canal feasibility studies had been started in 2018. It will bring Afghanistan closer to economic self-sufficiency and decrease the amount of wheat imports as 550,000 hectares of land (1.35 million acres, or 5500 square kilometers will be irrigated after the project’s completion. According to the economic experts, the project is one of the most vital and biggest economic and national projects in the history of the country and with the completion of the project challenge of a large number of farmers will be solved Shukria Kohistani
