{"id":82584,"date":"2016-07-28T07:40:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T07:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/5000-acres-of-land-gets-new-canal-for-irrigation-in-nangarhar\/"},"modified":"2016-07-28T07:40:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T07:40:59","slug":"5000-acres-of-land-gets-new-canal-for-irrigation-in-nangarhar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/5000-acres-of-land-gets-new-canal-for-irrigation-in-nangarhar\/","title":{"rendered":"5000 acres of land gets new canal for irrigation in Nangarhar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/7 July\/28 Jul\/agriculture-irrigation.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>JALALABAD (SW): The Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) handed over a newly established water canal to the local officials in eastern Nangarhar province on Thursday that would help irrigate up to 5000 acres of land.<\/p>\n<p>The canal has been built in the province&rsquo;s Behsud district at a cost of afn 1.5 million provided by the UK Department for International Development (DFID).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the inauguration ceremony, Naseer Ahmad Durrani, the minister for the Rural Rehabilitation and Development said that the canal would boost&nbsp;agriculture in Behsud district.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/7 July\/28 Jul\/Agriculture-US.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Durrani added that the canal is protected by retaining walls that would save it from floods.<\/p>\n<p>He further said that the retaining walls would also reduce the flood threat posed to the Kunar-Nangarhar highway.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) handed over a newly established water canal to the local officials in eastern Nangarhar province on Thursday that would help irrigate up to 5000 acres of land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-82584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}