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Another extension course was opened at the Ministry to provide the officials concerned with more up-to-date information on the cultivation of wheat, maize and clover and better ways of using artificial manure. Four additional extension officers were posted in four locations in Logar where they cultivated a strain of American wheat and used artificial fertilisers in five fields. The result of this cultivation in Logar and other parts of the country where the extension officers have been working has been satisfactory and more seeds were distributed among farmers to experiment with. In Chilsutoon, a hybrid American maize was introduced by demonstration teams consisting of the F.A.O. experts, technicians of the Wyoming University and those of the I.C.A. and students of the School of Agriculture. The result of this has been very encouraging.
The Department of Extension has opened new bee-keeping centres in Kohdaman, Parwan and Maidan and equipped each centre with hives supervised by specialists. These specialists have managed to attract wild bees to the hives and collect honey. A number of bee-keeping technicians and students have been sent to Ahingaran to start bee-keeping in this village, which provides ideal conditions.
The Department of Extension has made remarkable progress in sericulture by means of increasing the production of silk cocoons in three different breeding centres, namely, Tapatajbeg, Paghman and Gulbahar. Gift boxes of cocoons have been distributed among farmers in Panjsher and Salang. Demonstrations were given by the F.A.O. experts to encourage sericulture in those areas. The Department of Extension also provided the Community Development Project and the Sericulture Institute of Baghlan with a considerable amount of new hybrid cocoons for experimental purposes. The sericulture centres in Najarkhana, Darulaman, Gulbahar and Abdulkhel extended their mulberry plantation to feed more silkworms and building plans for the new centres have been prepared and money allocated to provide better facilities for breeding better silkworms and 51 new students have been recruited from Badakhshan and other parts of the country to study sericulture.
The Prime Minister looking through a microscope at the plant insects at Baghlan Agricultural Laboratory.
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