{"id":9793,"date":"2026-04-01T09:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/01\/undp-japan-rebuild-irrigation-canal-afghanistan-1280-hectares\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T09:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:20:18","slug":"undp-japan-rebuild-irrigation-canal-afghanistan-1280-hectares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/01\/undp-japan-rebuild-irrigation-canal-afghanistan-1280-hectares\/","title":{"rendered":"UNDP and Japan Rebuild 1.3 km Irrigation Canal, Expanding Crop Cultivation on 1,280 Hectares in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Afghanistan has announced that, as part of the &#8220;PALPA&#8221; project and with financial support from the Government of Japan, 1.3 kilometers of irrigation canal have been rebuilt, enabling irrigation for 1,280 hectares of agricultural land.<\/p>\n<p>According to the agency, this initiative helps farmers to adopt new crops and increase their income through better access to water, markets, and trade partnerships.<\/p>\n<p>Project officials say that improving irrigation systems is a fundamental need for farmers in many regions of Afghanistan, as water shortages and lack of standard infrastructure have consistently affected agricultural production levels.<\/p>\n<p>The PALPA project, focusing on strengthening rural livelihoods, seeks to build economic sustainability in agricultural communities by creating stronger linkages between producers and markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNDP and Japan rebuild 1.3 km irrigation canal in Afghanistan, enabling 1,280 hectares for new crops and boosting farmers&#8217; incomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-important-news","category-secondary-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}