{"book":"adl0981","page":49,"text":"Afghan farmers have learned how to use the newly introduced Austrian scythes\n\ngrasses have also been taken under experiment.\nAt Baghlan an area of 30 acres has been set aside where various trees, seeds and varieties of grass are cultivated. The Baghlan experimental farm has sold 20,026 grafted saplings to farmers and has given away 5,210 other young trees to schools, civic authorities, etc. The Kunduz farm has sold 3,687 trees, fruit-bearing and otherwise and has given away 4,954 trees. Nearly 8,000 trees have been grafted on the Farm.\nFor the improvement of cotton, a quantity of Akala 44 and other types of seeds have been sown for seed. Seven Egyptian wheats have also been cultivated for increased seed. The construction of the Kunduz Agricultural Club will also be completed in the very near future.\nIn Pactya considerable quantities of apricot, peach, olive, orange and pine\n\nhave been sown and 22,000 graftings of roses, poplars, honeysuckles and others have been planted.\nIn Maimana 580 grafted peach, pear, apple and quince trees have been planted, having been transported from Kunduz. Another 12 seres of almonds, pistachio and clover seeds have been sown. 2,489 pine, acacia, judas and almond trees have also been planted.\nIn Farah 142,300 pine, poplar, rose and other trees have been planted during the year, and some 10 seres of almond, pine, oak and mulberry seeds have been sown.\nIn Parwan 6½ acres of land were set aside for a small experimental farm, in which 1,616 trees of judas and one sere pine seeds were planted.\nA considerable number of trees have also been planted in the jungles of Chardih Ghorband, Ab-i-Shekh Ali, Bamyan, Andak and Chilmish.\n\n46","chars":1679,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0981/00049.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":109,"title":"Afghan progress in the third year of the plan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0981/49","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0981/canvas/49","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0981/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0981_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."}}