Coll 30/9(2) 'Admin. Reports of the Persian Gulf - 1945 -' [‎17r] (33/1148)

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IRCTIOa VI .
(a) >ereals.
As a result of the bumper wheat harvest the Persian
Government were able in Kay to discontinue the rationing of
wheat, and for the first time for many years large quantit
ies of wheat and barley wore brought into Bushire from the
surrounding countryside for sale in Bushire town.
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Owing to a lack of funds and apparently,', a lack of
intere.it on the part of the Agricultural Department, this
project has made no progress. There are many square miles
of prairie in the Ghabanakareh area which at present support
only rough grass, and in places a sparse wheat crop, which
could be made to bear a heavy whaat crop if the half-fin-
v
ishad canal which runs from iaadabad in tne direction of
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Deh Khoneh were to be completed, and if tne land thereby
brought under irrigation were to be properly cultivated.
At present the land to which canal water has bean brought
is most inefficiently farmed by the original cultivators
of the arsa, who still use an old-fashioned plough, quite
unsuitable for irrigated soil. unfortunately it et
present appears very doubtful wnetner tne Persian Government
will ever achieve the double goal of completing the canal
and training the cultivators how to fam it pronerly.
Owing to a lack of funds no progress has been made
by the Persian Government
/with the proposal to utilize the water of the Mund river
for Irrigation purposes.
(c) S ea. Jugar and .'ieco-Koods ,
The oonoply for the sale and distribution of tea
and sugar remained in the hands of the Persian Government.
In Bushire town these commodities are distributed by
coupon. The tea and sugar for the areas outside Bushire
continued to be handed over to the Halses, who sell most
of the allotment for their villages in the Black Market.
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