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

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Identifikator:: 1738588467

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-115043

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

Place of publication:: Nairobi

Publisher:: East African Standard

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: VI, 337 Seiten; Ill.

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part II. Agriculture

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PART 11. agriculture is almost the sole industry upon which the sustenance and advancement of the African peoples depend— a principle which has already been emphasized by the Phelps- Stokes Commission; 'n) It is further considered that, for the development of native agriculture, a staff of Africans trained in agriculture and capable of performing the duties of agricultural instructors is essential; and it is urged that the necessary provision should also be made for the systematic training of African teachers in agriculture for schools in native areas. MUTUAL SUPPORT AND ECONOMIC BALANCE BETWEEN NATIVES PRODUCING FOR EXTERNAL, AND THOSE PRODUCING FOR INTERNAL, CONSUMPTION. Mr. KIRBY made the following statement: — By production for external consumption is meant production for export. Partly because of the liability to dearth, more or less extensive in any one season in Tanganyika Territory, the tendency has been to encourage every native grower to produce food crops in addition to any purely economic (export) crop such as cotton. The world’s development has shown that this method of ** every man his own provider ’ is uneconomic, especially in that (1) those who possess no economic (export) crop yielding a comparatively large monetary return per acre, such as cotton, possess in times of shortage little or no money for buying food; and in that (2) it limits the circulation of money, that economic necessity for general prosperity, in the country itself. There are signs already in East Africa (Tanganyika and Uganda particularly) of the development of the African producer who grows cotton as a main crop, others being subsidiary, chiefly for rotation. It does not appear wise that this type of producer should be discouraged. With improved transport facilities distxicts whose distance limits their production for export (such as Kigoma, Ufipa, Rungwe, Songea in Tanganyika), or which are unsuited to cotton (Dodoma in Tanganyika) are likely to become producers of food for (among others such as plantation labourers) natives concentrating more particularly on cotton growing. These natives will extend the market for the food-crops of the former, of no value for export; and those will become indirectly producers of cotton, as their activities will enable the native cotton grower to use land for it that he would otherwise cultivate for foodstuffs. : Development in this direction, so that natives in the more remote districts may help indirectly the exports (of both native and non- native origin) of a country to figure increasingly in the trade of the world, is regarded as natural and important for encouragement. (The above was circulated in the form of a note under T.C.(C)Ag.12.) 85

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