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

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PART II. El cP CHAPTER VIII—-MISCELLANEOUS. J; spk @ ‘RB £0 ADULTERATION OF FARM PRODUCTS AND Shih Hike a PREVENTION OTHER THAN COMPULSORY INSP » Ns AND GRADING. Kiel x Mr. KIRBY said that in a country with many inland centres o1 production and many ports, a system of inspection and grading was foo costly, and, if the cost was to be borne by the industries concerned, it would prove too great a burden wherever the local production was not large. . In Tanganyika there were five important ports, including two on Lake Victoria (which, however, might be faken ‘as one for purposes of port inspection, since the port of consignment from the coast was at present Mombasa, and later, for Mwanza, would be either Mombasa or Dar-es-Salaam). Some other means of preventing the consignment of adulterated produce was necessary. The most important crop in this connection in Tanganyika was ground-nuts. Machine cleaning and re-bagging at the ports would mot, it is thought, be expensive and, if made compulsory and operated as a (self-paying) Government service, would be effective. This method was in use in the Gambia, which was a large exporter of ground-nuts, with, however, a single port. Enquiries were in progress to ascertain its suitability for shelled ground-nuts (which was the form m_ which this product was exported from the= Territory) and its suitability also in respect of cost. The problein of cost with any crop, or by any method, had less importance for other East African Dependencies, since in those the points of egress were confined to one (except, possibly, in Northern Rhodesia). The methods to be evolved. however, would have interest for them. (The above was circulated in the form of a note under T.C.(C)Ag.9.) Mr. KIRKHAM stated that the Agricultural Produce Adulteration Decree came into operation in Zanzibar on the 1st of January, 1926, and was directed particularly to avoid export of adulterated cloves, or cloves containing more than a certain percentage of moisture. It was hoped to inspect all shipments, but the machinery necessary to perform this would have increased the staff greatly and would have interfered’ unduly with exporters who attempted to catch a fluctuating market. . , The compulsory inspection was abandoned, and it was simply lpid down that it was an offence to sell, export or deal in cloves below the standard. Check inspections resulting in prosecution were made. An improvement in the quality of the produce had resulted. It was a choice between that method and full inspection and grading, In the case of Tangnayika, possibly a similar result would be obtained. Mr. SIMPSON knew of no methods except legislation, education, or commercial methods. Legislation was rather cumbersome and expensive to run but was more efficacious. In Uganda the power of prosecution in cotton markets was acting as a deterrent to adultera- tion, but was not entirely satisfactory. It was intended that all local sales should Be registered so that, the original seller, the ginner, could be reached'in the case of wrong grading and made to pay the difference in the value. THE CHAIRMAN (Mr. Holm) said ‘the grading of Agricultural products was practicable in the case of some, but in others the onus of grading was placed upon the owner or shipper, and inspections were

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