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AGRICULTURE Prime Minister Sardar Moham-med Daoud in-specting the rams belonging to the Animal Husbandry Development Organisation in Kataghan. During the fourth year of the Plan the Ministry of Agriculture has taken many steps to increase the agricultural output of the country by bringing farming equip-ment up to date and using new methods to protect crops and livestock against disease. The Ministry has also imported a great variety of new and more produc-tive seed strains. Teams from the Ministry of Agriculture travelled all over the country demonstrating new and more productive methods to farmers, using film strips and practical demonstration. The experimental farms in Kabul and throughout the country were greatly extended. Hybrid seedlings which had been developed on experimental farms were sold to the general public at a cheap rate in order to encourage them to use these superior plants. The services of additional foreign experts were valuable on experiments to improve horticulture, agriculture, poultry farming, dairy farm-ing, animal and plant preservation. Besides the F.A.O. and I.C.A. technicians who have been working on various projects, a forestry delegation of the People's Republic of China visited various natural forests in the country and presented a report to the Ministry which included suggestions for the preservation and extension of the existing one million hectares of forest in Afghanistan. The Department of Legislation: The Ministry of Agriculture has during the fourth year of the Plan introduced some forms of legislation to help improve farming conditions. Six Bills to deal with the organisation and regulation of farmers' meetings, land lease, irrigation, and farm hands, were prepared for the purpose of legislation. Five more projects 26