{"book":"adl0981","page":55,"text":"A bird's-eye view of the Gulbahar Textile Mills, which will go into full operation next year\n\n100 kWh. power at Farah may be\nmentioned.\n\nThe Gulbahar steam-generated power\nplant (2,800 kWh.) is also well under\nway.\n\nTEXTILE PROJECTS\n\nFabrics and clothes constitute the\nbiggest import items for Afghanistan,\nusing up vast sums in foreign currency.\nTextile projects, therefore, enjoy a certain\namount of priority in the Plan.\n\n1. Gulbahar Textile Plant\n\nIt is the biggest factory in Afghanistan,\nconsisting of 47,000 spindles and 1,422\nautomatic weaving machines with sections\nfor white, coloureds, prints and waste\nproducts. The construction work has\nbeen going on for several years now.\nDuring last year the entire spinning\nsection and a part of the weaving\nmachines were installed and began trial\n\noperation. Other sections are also com-\npleted in the neighbourhood of 70-90%.\nIt is expected that the factory will go\ninto full production in the next fiscal year.\n\n2. The Umeed Rayon Plant\n\nThis plant, consisting of 40 automatic\nweaving machines and producing up to\n650,000 metres of rayon annually, began\noperations in January.\n\n3. The Kandahar Woollen Textile Plant\n\nA new project is in hand which will,\nwith the co-operation of a Polish organisa-\ntion, enhance the quality and increase\nproduction of the present factory at\nKandahar. New machinery for its expan-\nsion is already being installed.\n\nCEMENT\n\nWith no cement factory, Afghanistan\nwas facing a rather grave problem by an\nannual expenditure of her hard-earned\n\n52","chars":1525,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0981/00055.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":109,"title":"Afghan progress in the third year of the plan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0981/55","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0981/canvas/55","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."}}