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TF Tarpon Agriculture

CERP Completed Four Kabul City Greenhouses

• Because of this project, Directorate of Greenery staff now has more experience preparing data and developing justification for this kind of budget expenditure.

• The DG and Deputy DG of Greenery said:• “this grant proposal is good” • “we can use parts of this for other purposes” • “this is the first time we’ve had this information

documented” • “we are going to show this proposal to the

Mayor”• Administrative and plant production capacity has

been built.

Contract Completion July 2013• Nine months after Director of Kabul City Greenery

Department requested greenhouses, TF Tarpon is closing CERP contract on 4 completed cold frame greenhouses as shown in this slide.

• DG of Greenery originally requested more expensive permanent solarium style cold frame structures, but accepted USFOR-A offer of steel hoop production cold frames.

• 10m x 50m Cold frames were constructed at three locations at the request of City personnel.

• Four cold frames increase Greenery Department flower production capacity 133%.

24-July-13