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The cost of the Agricultural Five-Year Plan to the nation will be: Afghanis For agriculture and irrigation 2,073,702,000 For the rearing of livestock .... 9,623,000 For the protection of livestock and plants against disease .... 51,617,000 (56 Afghanis = £1 Sterling, 20 Afghanis = $1.00) The above figures comprise 22·8% of the total Five Year Plan expenditure. The next important feature of the Plan is transportation. At present a network of roads encircles Afghanistan, but these are not all-weather highways; in fact, in certain areas the roads and bridges are sometimes washed away by seasonal floods. It is the Government's aim to improve the major routes to the east, north and south, so that these can easily take heavy traffic travelling into and out of the country. Furthermore, many workshops are to be installed in the main cities and along the highways, with sufficient provision for the repair of lorries and other vehicles. Within the scope of the Plan, the highways between Kabul and Torkham, Mazar-i-Sharif, and Kabul and Spinboldak will be substantially improved. They will be widened to 10 metres, and bridges will be built with a view to permanency. About 1,000 kilometres of these roads will be asphalted. To facilitate air travel between the capital and the various provinces, the existing airports will be improved and, where necessary, new airstrips will be constructed. This phase of the Plan includes the international airport of Kandahar, the Kabul airport—which will be capable of receiving all types of aircraft—and those of Jalalabad, Mazar-i-Sharif and Herat. The Afghan ports of Kizil Qala and Kilift, on the Amu river, will be modernised so as to be able to receive outgoing or incoming cargoes from the Soviet Union. The cost of this part of the Plan will be 1,444,522,000 Afghanis. Additional postal services, telephonic A bird's eye view of Kabul.