{"book":"adl0981","page":94,"text":"supplying specialists for the better sorting of cotton for export and for other markets. As a result of this considerable satisfaction has been achieved from the Afghan Barter Agreements with several countries.\n(ii) Fruit: fresh and dry fruits are among the important produce and export items of Afghanistan. In order to increase the export of this item to foreign countries a new company was established at Kandahar with a capital of 500,000 Afghanis. A Ministry of Trade representative is assisting this company for the sorting and standardising of fruits. Another company has been established in Kabul with a capital of 7,500,000 Afghanis and aims to do the following:\na. export fresh and dry fruits and seeds,\nb. regulate the market from the view-point of export and the requirements of foreign trade markets,\nc. seek foreign markets for fruit from Afghanistan.\nd. import machinery for the cleaning, purifying, packing and conserving of fruits.\nUntil recently the market for the export of Afghan fruit was India and Pakistan. The Ministry has made efforts to expand this market, and with this end in view has despatched samples of Afghan products to various eastern, European, African and American states. Orders have been received from a number of these for such fruits as raisins, pistachio, almond, walnut, dried apricot, etc.\nSeveral machines for cleaning raisins were imported during 1337 and distributed to various raisin-producing localities in Kandahar and Kabul.\n\nINSURANCE\nThe Afghan export and import items are being insured by foreign companies such as Sterling and Union. A U.S.S.R.\n\nA karakul ram and his shepherd. Thousands of flocks of karakul sheep are raised in the Northern Provinces\n\nInsurance Company has also agreed to insure Afghan commodities. A proposal of a French insurance company with respect to Afghan goods is now under study. Arrangements have been made for the despatch of a representative of the Ministry to Germany for higher and more specialised training in the field of insurance. The Ministry is also studying the possibility of establishing several Afghan insurance companies and has taken steps in employing an insurance specialist from Germany for the time being.\n\nNEW COMPANIES AND TRANSPORT ORGANISATIONS\nDuring 1337 and with the active encouragement of the Ministry, several companies and transport organisations came into being. Following are details of a few of them:-\n\nCompany\nCapital Afghanis\nMachine workers Ltd. 5,000,000\nMohabbat Co. 2,400,000\nSiddiki Transport Co. 1,780,000\nPashtani Co. 1,400,000\nBakhtawar Co. 2,400,000\nWadani Co. 2,500,000\n\n91","chars":2602,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0981/00094.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":109,"title":"Afghan progress in the third year of the plan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0981/94","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0981/canvas/94","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."}}