Provincial director for economic affairs said that, Afghan authorities have inaugurated a water canal in Jawzjan province to irrigate about 32,400 hectares of land.

Afghan Voice Agency(AVA)_Monitoring, Built at a cost of nearly 6 million afghanis (67,300 U.S. dollars), with 10 percent of the sum raised from residents in Aqcha district of the province, the canal is planned to benefit thousands of households, including the farmers, Faiz told reporters here.

Jawzjan provincial administration would do its best to provide irrigation for more lands as part of its efforts to develop the agriculture sector and facilitate local farmers to raise output, officials said.

Last year, Acting Deputy Prime Minister of the Afghan caretaker government Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar inaugurated the construction work of a 285-km water canal in Qush Tepa area of the northern Balkh province to irrigate 550,000 hectares of land in Balkh and the neighboring Jawzjan and Faryab provinces.