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

Document type:: Monograph

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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Title:: Part II. Agriculture

Collection:: Economics Books

PART II. production at Mwanza and the transport from Mwanza to Kampala and Jinja was cheap and easy. It would be a handicap to Uganda if they did not get rice from Tanganyika Territory, as ther own rice producing areas were too remote. To his mind cheap transport was the solution of the supply of native food crops. Mi. WORTLEY agreed entirely with Mr. Simpson that the question was one of cheap transport. As conditions ware in Nyasaland at present the Agricultural Department felt that it was necessary to keep iu pressing on natives the importance of producing adequute supplies of food crops for their own use. There was also the question of rotations of crops and it was an advantage to rotate food crops with cotton and tobacco. With regard to the question of transpoct, it wus to-day cheaper to import maize from Southern Rhodesia than to transport it 180 miles within Nyasaland. THE CHAIRMAN (Mr. Holm) had thought on reading the note that the adoption of the proposal depended on two things: one was comparatively cheap transport, and the second (a point not yet mentioned) the holding of a reserve of money by those natives indicated by Mr. Kirby, in order that they would be in a position to buy the food crops which they did not grow. He was doubtful whether the natives in the ** backwoods ’’ of these territories were yet in a position to have this principle applied to them and he thought that they would have to go through the ordinary stages of evolution as farmers; in other countries where there was a more intelligent community on farms, the farms were made as nearly as possible self- supporting. He thought Mr. Kirby had raised an important question and he hoped that it would be considered by all who were responsible for native agricultural development in East African Territories. He thought that the principle should be applied, where possible, but he did not think that it could be applied for some considerable time, nor did he think that they would be wise to attempt it at present. Mr. KIRBY agreed that it was a matter of evolution. He had in mind not only plantation labourers but ordinary natives, who could be fed with the assistance of more remote districts, if, as Mr. Simpson suggested, they had reasonable transport. They had another examnrle: Bordering on Lake Tanganyika in the remote district of Kigoma their efforts were directed to the production of millet, beans and rice which were transported by rail to the more sophisticated natives, and, more especially, to the natives employed on plantations and Government work, so that the latter had now an opportunity of getting food from an origin which did not exist in the past. In reply to the Chairman, Mr. Kirby stated that the note had been written to obtain information and to ventilate the matter, as they had felt that in the predominant interest of prodnetion of economic crops the prodnetion of food for export from district to district had been rather forgotten. Mr. SIMPSON said he had always felt that it was a great mistake that a bale of cotton or a bac of maize should be produced for export by natives in East Africa, if the natives of the area were not proverly fed. It was Impossible to have a contented peorle, capable of doing a day s work, unless they were proverly fed and the first duty of the Agricultural Denartment was to ensure that the people were supplied with sufficient food. 87

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