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Agriculture Compound Renovation and Construction
Planned Start Month
March 2011
Estimated Cost
$578,109
Status
Status Unknown
Province
Zabul
Regional Command
RC-South
Project Description
Install New Roof, Construct Boundary Wall, 3 Green Houses and parking area, and 3 office buildings to develop training capacity for the Ministry of Agriculture in Zabul Province
Project Goals
The goals for this project are three fold. First, it will provide a secure and useable facility for the Ministry of Agriculture. Second, it will provide a venue to train local farmers basic and vital techniques of growing and taking care of crops in training classrooms and hands on plots of land. A grave problem in Zabul is that farmers only have the capacity to grow enough food to survive from year to year. Bad growing seasons create a serious threat to the population, and malnutrition is a large cause of death in children between the ages of 2 and 6. Changing their archaic farming techniques into a more modern skill set should change this negative trend. Third, it will help GIRoA build economic development by removing farmers from agrarian farming where they only grow enough food to feed themselves and their family to developing a business sector in surplus sales development. Through better techniques and skills they will slowly begin to improve their skills to produce surplus for sale in the market.
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Illustrations: Sarah Way for ProPublica. Data: Assembled from several different Department of Defense databases by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction and provided to ProPublica under a Freedom of Information Act Request.