{"book":"adl0981","page":93,"text":"His Majesty The King opening the Second International Exhibition in Kabul\n\nfrom the Soviet Union's Sofracht came to Kabul and held talks with the authorities of the Department of General Transport.\nTo ease the transport of goods over the Oxus (Amu) River to Kabul and other areas the Ministry of Trade has established an office entitled Bandar-Wali (Port Authority) at Kizil Kala. This office will be responsible for all works and activities in the northern ports such as Kizil Kala, Tashguzar and Kilift.\nD. International Exhibition at Kabul.\nThe establishment of international exhibitions throughout the world has been considered very favourable for the development and expansion of trade relations and the sale of goods.\nIn 1337 an international exhibition was held in Kabul to introduce Afghanistan's traditional industries and goods. Invitations were sent to friendly countries for their participation in the exhibition, and as a result several nations did participate. The 1337 exhibition in Kabul was more attractive and covered greater territory than the one which was held two years before. In all some forty Afghan institutions and fourteen foreign governments, as well as several foreign private organisations (which have agencies in\n\nAfghanistan) participated in the international exhibition. The occasion was held to be both successful and effective.\nDuring 1337 Afghan representatives participated in an international exhibition held in Italy between December 6th and 21st, 1958. Afghanistan also took part in India's Industrial Exhibition, when a delegation headed by the Afghan Minister of Trade was invited to India. Another Afghan delegation also joined in the Cairo Industrial Exhibition.\nINTERNAL TRADE\nThe Ministry of Trade has taken considerable interest in the development of internal commerce and in furnishing ways and means for the purchase of goods and their export, as well as such other items as sorting and packing, and the transport of goods for trade throughout the country. There follows a list of the Ministry's activities in these respects.\nA. Credits Furnished.\n(i) Cotton: in order to encourage the cultivation of cotton, one of the country's most important industrial products, the Ministry has in the past few years furnished the following credits to various organisations:\nOrganisation Credit\nKunduz Cotton Company 86 million Afghanis\nAmin Co. Ltd. 40 million Afghanis\n(ii) Karakul:—\nOrganisation Credit\nKarakul Company—through Da Afghanistan Bank 34 million Afghanis\n(iii) Wool:—\nOrganisation Credit\nWool Company—through Da Afghanistan Bank 61 million Afghanis\nB. Sorting and Standardising.\n(i) Cotton: the Ministry has assisted by\n\n90","chars":2676,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0981/00093.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":109,"title":"Afghan progress in the third year of the plan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0981/93","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0981/canvas/93","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."}}