{"book":"adl0957","page":363,"text":"298\n\nthe lands already under cultivation and to control seasonal floods\nfor irrigation as well as generating electricity. At present the\nconstruction of the following dams and canals have been taken\ninto consideration :—\n\nEstimated cost.\n\nJalalabad Canal 162 million Afghanis.\nPalto Dam, Katawaz 60-70 ’’ ’’\nSardah Dam, Kandahar 50-64 ’’ ’’\nKharwar Dam, Lohgar 24-357 ’’ ’’\nCanal and Dam of Kunduz 163-744 ’’ ’’\nCanal and Dam of Kokcha 506-250 ’’ ’’\nDam of Machalghou 40-500 ’’ ’’\nHelmand Valley Project 1064-880 ’’ ’’\n\nA sum of 38,653 million Afghanis and 10.475 million\ndollars is earmarked for the improvement of the quality of seeds\nand plants. Another 9,623 million Afghanis and 0.671 million\ndollars will be spent to improve the live stock, especially the\nKarakul sheep and Marinos. To combat animal and plant\ndiseases the Government intends to spend a further sum of\n51,617 millon Afghanis and 0·388 million dollars\n\nThe outlay for these multifarious purposes (irrigation,\nsupply of better seeds and fertilizers, improvement of animal\nhusbandry, etc.) works out at 46·06 per cent of the budget.\nNext to agriculture great importance is attached to communica-\ntion. It is certain that any social, cultural, industrial or\neconomic development in Afghanistan is dependent on an\nadequate transportation system. In the development of such\nan adequate system, a programme of road improvement and\nmaintenance is of prime importance. The present road system,\nvirtually a circle round the country, comprises about 4,000","chars":1516,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0957/00363.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":377,"title":"new guide to Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0957/363","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0957/canvas/363","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0957/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0957_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}