The Helmand and Arghandab Valley Authority (HAVA) based in Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan, originally named the Helmand Valley Authority (HVA) until its expansion in 1965,[1] was established on December 4, 1952, as an agency of the Afghan Government.[2] The agency was modeled on the Tennessee Valley Authority in the United States,[3][4][5] with a remit covering lands in Farah Province, Ghazni Province, Helmand Province, Herat Province, and Kandahar Province.[2]
The HAVA is overseen by the Afghan Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (previously the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation).[6]
- ^ (pdf) The Helmand Valley Project in Afghanistan: A.I.D. Evaluation Special Study No. 18 C Clapp-Wicek & E Baldwin, United States Agency for International Development, published December 1983
- ^ a b Report on Development of Helmand Valley, Afghanistan, 1956, Tudor Engineering Company
- ^ Cullather, Nick (September 2002). "Damming Afghanistan: Modernization in a Buffer State". Journal of American History. 89 (2): 512–537. doi:10.2307/3092171. JSTOR 3092171.
- ^ Curtis, Adam (13 October 2009). "Kabul: City Number One - Part 3". BBC. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
- ^ Reconstruction And Opium Poppy Cultivation in Central Helmand: The Need For An Integrated Program Richard B. Scott, Conference on Afghanistan Reconstruction, University of Nebraska at Omaha, published 2008-10-03
- ^ Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors on the Proposed Loan and Technical Assistance to the Republic of Afghanistan for the Kajakai Gales Project in Afghanistan[permanent dead link] Asian Development Bank, published 1974-11-12