{"book":"adl0981","page":51,"text":"Improvement work began on the Ajimir Canal, which irrigates a large area of Baghlan. Cement pipes were used to prevent the canal sides from caving in in some parts. At Jarikhushk and Hassan Tal, where the introduction of electric power was feasible, all the necessary equipment was prepared. A further improvement has been the erection of strong walls with sufficient boulder-backing in places where floods damaged the canal.\n\nof beetroot cultivation in Baghlan and Ghori, where seven varieties of seeds from Poland are being used experimentally.\nThe distribution of seeds to farmers in northern provinces during the past year was as follows:\nCotton seed\nin Kataghan 434,585 seres\nCotton seed\nin Mazar-i-Sharif 83,275 seres\nCotton seed\nin Shibirghan & Akcha 59,000 seres\n\nA D.D.T. unit preparing for the next lot of spraying\n\nWhen the Kelagai Desert project is completed, some 5,500 acres of new land will come under cultivation. The Archi Canal moreover is being surveyed, and steps have been taken to clean canals throughout the country.\n\nIn all cotton-growing areas, the Ministry's technical experts are on hand to advise the farmers. The same is true\n\nCotton seed\nin Maimana 24,705 seres\n\nBeetroot seed\nin Kataghan 143,115 Kg.\n\nWheat\nin Mazar-i-Sharif,\nShibirghan, Maimana,\nHerat & Farah 10,000 tons\n\n48","chars":1307,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0981/00051.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":109,"title":"Afghan progress in the third year of the plan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0981/51","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0981/canvas/51","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."}}