President Ghani says that the schools’ bell will be rung online next week and classes will officially be thought through the media.

Due to the lockdown and restrictions to help prevent the Coronavirus outbreak, the entire educational institutions of Afghanistan have been shut. In the meantime, the Ministry of Education has been working on the remote or online education system to be delivered via media.

As a result, the science subjects will be taught via television networks and social subjects will be taught via radio stations in a properly scheduled manner.

The ministry of education says that through the system in hand, students across the country will be able to solve 60% to 70% of their problems by watching TV and listening to the radio on schedule.

Noria Nazhat, the spokeswoman of the ministry of education, says “Official broadcasts haven’t been started nor we have had any trial broadcasts in the media. Some of the private media networks have pledged to support. Both, our official and trial broadcasts, will start next week right after the president’s call for schools.”

However some of the private universities have already started teaching online, the ministry of higher education’s plans seems to be more comprehensive.

The ministry of higher education says that they are working on a single system that includes all the lists of the private and the service universities as well as teachers and students across the country, and specific materials will be attached for teaching and learning.

Aziz Ahmad Oriakhill, head of the information, publication and public relations of the ministry of higher education, says that the MHE has been working on a single online system (an application) and it will be configured in a week’s time, noting that the application will contain certain options and registries including the list of the tutors and learners.

Students have found the private university’s online lessons very expensive because of the kind of applications that the universities are using, but the ministry of higher education aims to provide students and teachers with free/low-cost services.

Also, it is very likely that the ongoing situation will escalate and the lockdown will be taken more seriously, therefore, the ministry of higher education aims to keep students busy with their lessons at home and, the students should also take this as an opportunity.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock is planning to make fig gardens on some 3250 hectares of land.

The MAIL says that in the next 5 years, it will have grown fig gardens on about 3250 hectares of land in Afghanistan.

Officials of the MAIL say that the plan to make the gardens, which is of national interest, has been approved by the president, adding that in the future five years, $60 million will be invested in the making of the gardens.

They have noted that the project will be followed by establishments of dozens of fig processing plants, adding that tens of hundreds of people will be employed in and post the process.

Akbar Rustami, the spokesperson of the MAIL, clarifies that most of these gardens will be sketched in Herat, Balkh and Kandahar provinces.

Afghanistan enjoys high potentiality in regards to the growth and production of figs; therefore, we have come up with this business plan, he added.

Economic experts also welcome the plan saying that the ministry of agriculture, irrigation, and livestock should further invest in such ideas that have a market out there.

Hakimullah Sediqi, an economic expert, says, “The ministry of agriculture should invest in objects, such as figs, that have a market in the region and the world.”

Officials of the MAIL say that Afghanistan yearly exports 25000 metric tons of goods, which, with the making of the new gardens, will rise to 40 metric tons.

The Ministry of Mines and Petroleum has been surveying two wells – well no. 32 and well no. 36 – for a while in the Yatim Taq area of Jawzjan province to detect oil and gas.

The ministry of mines and petroleum says that the process at the well no. 32 has been successful and now the liquid-gas extraction has been functioning.

According to the MMP, the gas that will be refined from the well no. 32 will be put to use in different areas in Afghanistan.

As per the MMP statistics, extraction of the gas from this refinery well alone will add 8.5 million US dollar revenue to Afghanistan’s yearly income.

In addition, it has been gauged that hopefully, the refinery will generate thousands of jobs adding immensely to the employment graph of Afghanistan.