Development of the region near the Helmand River in Afghanistan with the help of the Afghan Government and the U.S. Afghan men pray in a mosque. Stores along a street. A traffic policeman control traffic. Views of building. Afghani people sitting and discuss the Helmand River project. A man speaks. Views of farms showing various crops including grains, pomegranate, water melon and cotton. Afghanis load cotton supplies onto a truck. Ditches supply water to farms. A tractor plows a farm. Men use shovels and dig. Farmers arrange sacks of agriculture commodities. They load the agriculture commodities onto mules. Agriculture Development Bank personnel provide loan to farmers and assist them in purchasing various commodities and farming tools. At Balon Research Farm a man waters plants. Crops and plants in farms. Cattle drink water. Cattle in a stockyard.
Development of the region near the Helmand River in Afghanistan with the help of the Afghan Government and the U.S. Water flows in the river. A hydroelectric power station generates electricity. A generator provides power. Workers work in cotton industry due to electricity. A fork lift carries supplies of cotton. A stack of cotton supplies. Workers work on construction of houses. They pass buckets to each other. Children receive education in schools. Women with infants receive infant care in a medical care center. Development of health facilities to assist and provide help to people of the village.
Development of the region near the Helmand River in Afghanistan with the help of the Afghan Government and the U.S. Farmlands along a road. A region near the Helmand River. Camels in a desert. Tractors are driven and children swim. Afghanis load crops for transportation. Farmers with cattle in farms. A farmer spreads fertilizer in a farm. Cotton supplies are transported. The Helmand River and landscape.
Contrasting examples of changes in transportation and housing in Afghanistan during 1950 to 1960. Cattle draw a plow to till a piece of land in the past.. A tractor being used nowadays to till a farm. Men work on a farm with hand cultivators. Nomads migrate from an area on foot. In contrast, a truck is seen being used as a current means of transportation. Men ride on mules and in horse-drawn carts,as they move from one area to another, in the past. In contrast, a man gets into his automobile. People milling about on a street in a village. View of buildings and factories replacing former villages. Machines in operation inside a factory. New homes for factory workers.
Film shows various crops grown in the fertile valley farms of Afghanistan, that are irrigated by snow melt from the mountains. Men cultivating cotton plants using hand tools. Fields of clover and alfalfa. Closeup of Grains being harvested by hand. Extensive rice paddies. Grape arbors seen with towering snow-covered mountains in the background. Men picking melons in a patch. Men walking through orchards of fruit trees. Closeup of oranges on trees. Donkeys carrying agricultural products on their backs on the way to market. Several pack animals carrying goods into a small town trading center.
A herd of sheep grazes along a mountain slope. in Afghanistan. A herd of sheep grazes on a farm. Men herding sheep along a road. Men loading wool and hides, for export. Merchants push a wagon heavily laden with hand-woven Afghan wool rugs for export. The rug merchants lay some of their products on pavement at a market. Two merchants display silk cocoons, an important export commodity. A man sorts skins of new born Karakul sheep, which earn millions of dollars annually in exports.