{"book":"adl0981","page":95,"text":"Kataghan Seeds & Transport Co. 3,500,000\nKadiri Co. 3,500,000\nHakim & Omar Co. Ltd. 2,000,000\nKataghan Joint Stock Co. 1,700,000\nBalkh Joint Stock Transport Co. 5,000,000\nShakir China Works 7,700,000\nFurther increase in D.M.\nSiemens Co. 200,000\nFurther increase in Afghanis\nBus Service Co. 4,423,000\n\nRESEARCH STATISTICS\nA. Regulations.\nDuring 1337 the Ministry has prepared and presented for the inspection and study of expert organisations the following\n\nA young girl of the Shakh Valley, Maimana, in native costume, deftly weaving one of the carpets for which Afghanistan is famous\n\nregulations:\ni The Law of Foreign Investment (this has now passed all its legal procedures and become a national statute).\nii The Law of Trade Brokerage.\niii The Law of Registering Trade Marks.\niv The Law of Motor Vehicle Brokerage.\nA special department of the Ministry has been continuously active in preparing trade statistics in Kabul and in all the customs houses throughout the country as well as at the borders. The monthly reports filed at all these customs houses are forwarded to the Ministry where they are systematically arranged. The annual trade volume statistics are derived from them.\nThe 1337 Export Statistics were arranged on the basis of the International Code System and published in Persian and in English in one volume early in 1338.\nThe import statistics for 1336 are in the process of being printed. Arrange-ments have been made to purchase all the necessary machinery for the future publishing of general statistics in Afghan-istan within the country.\nDuring the year a course in statistics was instituted in which a number of officials from the Ministry as well as representatives from the statistical depart-ments of other ministries and organisa-tions took part. The course gave general information on statistics during the three months of its duration.\n\nPRICE CONTROL\nThe Ministry has established an Office of Price Control with a view to removing the possibility of profiteering and of creating balanced rates for goods, especially pertaining to those goods which\n92","chars":2082,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0981/00095.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":109,"title":"Afghan progress in the third year of the plan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0981/95","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0981/canvas/95","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."}}