{"book":"adl0981","page":53,"text":"throughout the year. In the provinces,\nespecially in the Kabul Province, the\ntrainees are continually helping farmers\nin their campaigns.\n\nStations for the same purpose have\nbeen set up in many places where films\nfrom various countries showing their\nmethods of combatting plant diseases, are\nshown. At Kohdaman some 133,600\nvines were treated by graduates of the\ncourse. Around 5,251 seres of powdered\nsulphur were sold to owners of vineyards\nat a nominal price.\n\nAt Dehsaleh, east of the capital, 236,745\nvines and 2,590 trees were sprayed.\n\nLast year's activities also included the\nsowing of lucerne, some other foreign\nplants and the Shapisandi wheat for\ndemonstration purposes, and the showing\nto farmers of the uses of artificial ferti-\nlisers such as ammonium nitrate and\nsuper phosphates. Reports too were\npresented to the Ministry on the various\ndiseases encountered by agricultural\nteams at all stations.\n\nThree demonstration centres were\nopened at Sarai Khwaja, Paghman and\nJalrez and their purpose, in showing the\nmost modern and scientific methods in\nbee-keeping, was to encourage bee-owners\nto produce more honey.\n\nTree-spraying against insects is an important facet of agricultural activity. The photo here shows\npart of an orchard at Char Asiab, near Shewaki, being sprayed\n\n50","chars":1292,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0981/00053.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":109,"title":"Afghan progress in the third year of the plan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0981/53","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0981/canvas/53","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."}}