Coll 30/9(2) 'Admin. Reports of the Persian Gulf - 1945 -' [‎348r] (695/1148)

Cn the whole the her 1th of the town re.nainr . good except i
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Vaccination cantrefe are carrying, on ay usual, but the C#fcU3*
Hospital does most of this worX.
An acute shortage of aiedicines has been felt in Kerman and
the pricet of cxlstiiv medicines have risen fx*>-a uoO to 5000
Oo<ae ehootloto ti ir ovn/iit is reports ,
•v- ii: .?*. u-uui v.- = • ■. i.■ -... medicines
(»a) Agriculture #
... ,; ii aiimoon jjaye; tah, hel u the ^ost o. t* r Irector ot
sericulture till thlPj.st we ok of ^Iverbcr, *-.hc. n he Was succeeded
by Agha aasoul Rafiizadeh, who ooems to be well-menning if not
very energotic«
During the year unaor report the harvest wne poor owinp to
short? a of coir no snow* ham district v> s better oih than in the
district’s own consumption.
j?fsinJ«in district which usually supplies a Halted quantity
of surplus gr?jin to rertc n hod the worst harvest i.n the " T str-n t
owl*- to IncK of r*In and crop d?imogo by • jen* and ary winds*
the crops were normal ^nd conei<-erable stvocks would have been
available for hara ^n. if the crops had been properly assessed »nd f.
undortaKii^s taken to yell the surplus to CoverrL»unt. !^ut the
y
Jiruft especially, thoroughly corrupt* The result was that Kerman
has run short of wheat before it need a.’-ve done*
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the province (including the £ opinning mixis)* The reason wns th^t
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the cotton at the rate of Hials 2,500/- per ton* Therefore little
was cultivated* The ^rice i
per ton, out ihie ie not s:
to the ris e in the cost of
the 1943 crop owing not to
.fu since been increased to iials 6,000/-
' great a concession as it appe-rs ouing
living?* There are better prospects for
extr < cultivation hut to the recent rein*
Rice *
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?nd M^sendran, produced in the dheh’s own fields, should be sold
throutfnout Iran oni cultivation in all other provinces should cease*
fter the change of re ime a United quantity of rice w ?s cultivated
in Jiruft and it is understood that this year there is likely to bo
considerable increase in the Jiru 't, Bam «nd Ooizoo arers*
Opium *
It is believed t at the poppy crop was as good ae in 1U41,
but the Jovemuent could not collect nore than 2200 maunds of raw
opium wheraos 4 to 5 times that amount was smuggled and disposed
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maund nnu the rat il price wae dials 1200/-, gradually rising to
Hi sis 3900/- per maand tow ijras the end of the ja&r. The smup;gled
. jm, whi(.
to <3ove
Government r^te. Recently the G©vern?aent hue increased the purchaeo
price from Rials 300 to Rials 700 per mvond*
A report published in a Tehran piper said that Kerman ‘jetan’s
nail/ consumption of opium is 540 Kilos, which is probably exagger
ated} but the XVet r ' ftalfia that it is the blu est opiuiii s:aeuifv..