Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftslehre

Proceedings of the South & East African combined agricultural, cotton, entomological and mycological conference held at Nairobi, August, 1926

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Identifikator:: 832651257

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-63075

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Devas, Charles S. http://d-nb.info/gnd/124362435

Title:: Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftslehre

Place of publication:: Freiburg

Publisher:: Herder

Year of publication:: 1896

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XXIII, 521 S.)

Collection:: Economics Books

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PART V. PART V. GENERAL. (All items in this Part were discussed in full Conference.) CHAPTER I. REVIEW OF AGRICULTURE IN KENYA. (In full conference at opening meeting with His Excellency the President in the Chair.) Mr. HOLM read the following paper (referred to in Agenda as T.C.(C)Ag.18): — The primary object of this paper is to describe in general terms the position of the agricultural industry of this Colony, in order that members attending this Conference may find greater interest in their visit, and may be in a better position to express their views upon matters which affect the prosperity and progress of agriculture in these parts of His Majesty's Dominions. Agriculture has through the centuries been the main pursuit of the native tribes. Upon it they depended entirely for their subsistence, and their peaceful existence, excepting during periods of internecine strife, was not disturbed by traders interested in outside markets. Things took a different turn about a quarter of a century ago when the activities of European farmers and commercial interests influenced the course of events, and {rom that time it may be said that agriculture commenced as an industry producing something more than the mere personal wants of a sparse population of Africans living in undisturbed possession of the land without any commitments in respect of charges ordinarily levied upon landowners or tenants. The experience of native agriculturists furnished no guide of great value to the alien farmer who had to depend upon the proceeds of production suitable for an oversea market. Picture a land of mountains, plateaux, forests, hills and valleys, well watered with numerous rivers and streams, clothed with vegetation ranging from the mighty cedars of the forest to shrubs of the open pastoral lands, and everywhere pasturage, nourishing and palatable to stock; a vegetation which in the main is not tropical in character or appearance although the region is equatorial and in the tropical zone; a land calling out for development and obviously possessing potentialities of a kind unknown to the newcomer. Such were the conditions which the pioneer settlers found. Not unnaturally in a country in which the pasturage was abundant and appeared nutritious everywhere did the early settlers regard stock farming as the main pursuit in the early stages of development. Apart from the extensive area known as the Northern Frontier District which is arid or semi-arid in character and but very sparsely populated, the main productive area of Kenya Colony and Protectorate comprises about 301 million acres as native reserves, including about nine million acres held by the Masai tribe under special treaty, some 247

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