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(a) Affpiou.ltur.qt
Aqal Rasool Razizadoh remained as Director of Agrl-
-eulture till the first week of December, when he r»s suspen­
se* and an employeec of the Agriculture Department, Dr.Jidd-
-ldi# off lo iated till tho end of the year#
During the yosr under reoort the harvest ^as excellent,
and It is said the yield was the boat for half a century. The
Government 'ambaro1 at tho end of the year had a stcok of 987
tons of wheat and 671 tono of barley as against 30 tons at the
sane time during 1942. The sowings at the enc of the year were
considerably more than lest year, in spite of lack of rain.
Cotton « Tho cotton crop was poorer than that of 1942 swing to
damage by locusts, In several areas the cotton seed was sown
three times but destroyed by locusts each time.

Rie e. The poppy crop, in the year under review was believed
to be as good as in the previous year, but the Government were
unable to collect more than 1250 maunds of raw opium, the rest,
nearly ten times more, being smuggled and disposed of at great
profit. The Government's purchase price rose fren Rials 700/-
per maund at the beginning of the year to Kials 100o/- a nauni
towards the end.
IN September tho sale of opium was controlled; issue
was made tn a coupon system allowing six raisc&ls a month to
opium smokers and three misqals to opium eaters, and the rate
wa3 raised from 5 rials a raiscal to 1.0 rials. The smuggled
opium rate was almost .^qual to that of Government till the ecn-
-trol on sale was instuted, when the rate of smuggied opium
rose to double that o 1? the Government rate viz. rials 128C0/-
a icaund as 9Inst riels 6400/-
jlat«r_ Sunply of Aprnan. The question of bringing water to
^sraan from the Chari river about 20 miles south east of Herman,
wnich v/as taken up in 1942 has been shelved for the present
owing to financial stringency.

to) Industry and development.
(i) Khurshld Snlnnln* Mills# The firm fcas a capital of
24217 shares, each of Rials 500/- 450 tGns of raw cotton are
required annually to run the mills. At the beginning of the
year the Ministry of Industry allotted a consignment of 303 tons
Jer the mills, but 70 tons of this allotment were not delivered.
result" was that during the period under report 1700 spindles
iere idle.
. T^e dividend earned was 150$ of whioh 40 $ was added
? the oapital of the Shirkat and the balance (60$) given to the
•aareholders*
t 2ft£Pqt. During the year 1943 the export of earpets
6114 #th®r ^oreigs oaeSaries Y/as still at at stand-
»f Jr1* though sons shipping spaoe Y?as allotted towards the end
r the year, Many of the looms are now not In uso.
The following exports of earpets were sent to Tehrans-
sjat by Iranian Carpet Co.
12,000 aq. nta. t* a Yalua #f 67uS§7000
% " Harondl
, Agah 3,000 • « • • • • . 70,000
1 ; ^oinza*#^ • . • • *• 3,600,000
Othar traiara • • • • 3,000,000
• 1 # • • • 20,000,000