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

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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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Title:: Part II. Agriculture

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PART 11. j suitable for storage. They could not store plantains, and maize would require corrugated iron stores. In regard to cassava they did not insist on the planting of any definite amount but records were kept of the acreage planted in each district. Mr. CAMERON had seen the system in certain districts in Southern Rhodesia which were liable to famine. He did not think there was any question of compulsion. Mr. WORTLEY said that he had been urging the importance of this matter on the Nyasaland Government but that they were faced with the difficulty of dealing with maize, which was the chief diet of their natives. POSSIBILITIES OF CO-OPERATION AMONG NATIVES IN EAST AFRICA. Mr. KIRBY made the following statement: — Tribes vary in intelligence and enterprise. It is thought that the benefits of co-operation will appeal to tribes on the hicher nlane of these qualities. In what directions should it be beeun? Wherever the possession and use of capital goods will improve agriculture, it might well begin with the provision of funds to procure these goods. An example is with ploughing. Experience in Tanganyika Territory has shown that the native character is averse to communal agriculture (ploughing, with cultivating, marketing and sharing of proceeds), but not to co-operative ploughing alone. Co-operation, in fact, is the only means available, to the large body of them, of securing plouchs. Tt is, moreover, the only economical means of using the plough, for. with individual ownership and small fields, the use of the rloungh will not cover its annual cost in interest and depreciation, and the hiring of ploughs is uneconomical. Co-operative credit has not been attempted and it would be interesting to learn what efforts. have been made in other countries with this form of en-operation in particular, and any form in general, among African natives. (The above was circulated in the form of a note under T.C.(C)Ag.14.) Mr. SIMPSON said that his experience, of the subject had not been very wide and he knew of no experiment having been made on the lines suggested. In Uganda they had tried communal ploughing and in some areas it had been successful. He had been trying to work on another principle, namely the development of an individualistic attitude. In olden days the chie’s had power of life and death over their subjects who were compelled to work for their chief when required. The Uganda Government was trying to make it possible for every man to get the financial benefit of his own work. When that system reached a certain stage, it might be possible to evolve some method of co-partnership among individuals but the individual must feel himself economically free before he could enter into partner- ship with others. y Mr. MILLIGAN said that with ploughing of course there was the difficulty that every man ought to own his own plough; as a method of introducing the use of implements, however, co-operative purchase might be very useful. In India he had found on several occasions that there were as many as four or five owners of ploughs. This was however due to the fact that they were purchasing ploughs for secondary operations. 9i

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