Minister's Biography

History

Afghanistan is a mountainous country with vast deserts and brilliant history of several millennia.

Its geographic location and topography is comparable only with a limited number of Asian countries.

The geographic shape of the Afghanistan begins from low levels and rise to high altitudes, finally reaching the “Roof of the World”; this shows that this geography has different ecosystems, changing of the ecosystems causes beauty and attractiveness in our land.
Proper weather is one of the important characteristics which has given Afghanistan a specific features.
 
Our country is now under construction; these efforts is going on with the cooperation of hard-working people, agriculture forms one of the important areas of it.


The first agricultural management was created during reign of King Amanullah Khan in 1919; during the reign of king Habibullah Khan and after that a series of measures was adopted for agricultural development.

The measures taken by the Ministry of Commerce from 1918-1937 in the field of agriculture, reforestations, construction of rivers, planting of trees, formation of experimental agricultural farms, nurseries and others are as follow:

1.    Construction of dams and excavation of canals from 1918- 1931.
2.    Creation of first independent directorate of agriculture in 1937.
3.    Creation of Ministry of Agriculture in 1948.
4.    Renaming of Ministry of Agriculture to Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation in 1960.