{"book":"adl0981","page":99,"text":"Carpets and\nKelims 96 239,050 sq. metres\nCasings 60 2,000,000 coils\nSeeds and\nSpices 70\nHides and\nskins 55 1,400,000 pieces\n\nAfghan export commodities have brought in from major receiving countries during the year the following amounts :\nIndia ... ... 564 million rupees\nPakistan ... 129 .. ..\nU.S.S.R. ... 76 .. dollars\nGreat Britain ... 16 .. pounds sterling\nGermany ... 35 .. marks\nCzechoslovakia 14 .. dollars\nU.S.A. ... ... 17 .. ..\n\nFrom the above statistics it can be seen that more than fifty per cent. of Afghani-stan's trade income in 1336 was derived from dried fruits, karakul, cotton, wool and fresh fruits. Dried fruit, which was the leading export commodity, earned 26 per cent. of the total trade income, while karakul brought in 22 per cent., cotton 16 per cent., wool 10 per cent., and fresh fruits 7 per cent.\n\nThis order of importance of commodities was not the same in 1335. Comparing trade figures of 1336 to those of 1335 it can be seen that during the latter year karakul was the leading export commodity, forming 25 per cent. of the country's trade earnings, while dried fruits earnings were 22 per cent. of the total. Similarly, cotton brought in 12 per cent., wool 10 per cent. and fresh fruits 11 per cent. A study of the export trade also indicates that the export of some commodities has been steadily rising—such as karakul which shows a steady rise\n\nOne of the numerous designs of Afghan carpets is the Feel Pye (Elephant Pad) one shown above\n\n96\n\nA mountain torrent in the Greater Pamir","chars":1519,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0981/00099.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":109,"title":"Afghan progress in the third year of the plan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0981/99","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0981/canvas/99","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."}}