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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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part III. Cotton

Collection:: Economics Books

PART III : therefore essential for ginning facilities to be provided in the interior within the areas of production and cotton ginners have gradually built ginneries throughout the whole of the cotton producing areas. Although head porterage of cotton has been practically eliminated, except that the growers carry their produce for sale to a ginnery or market, internal transport costs are still very high. The use of cattle for transport purposes is still extremely restricted, owing either to the presence of tsetse fly or the incidence of cattle diseases. The cotton crop is therefore transported from the cotton markets and ginneries almost entirely by motor transport. This form of transport is efficient, but very expensive, and cannot be used over long distances for such a low-priced product as cotton seed. Many thousands of tons of cotton seed are thus annually destroyed at ginneries in the interior, owing to the high costs of internal transport. To guide the industry along practical lines of development a large number of cotton rules have been drawn up and put into operation. Many of our tribes which grow large quantities of cotton are very primitive and it has been necessary to guide them at every stage of the crop’s development. Cotton markets have been established throughout the country and every grower of cotton is enabled to market his own crop personally and to carry away the results of his labours in hard cash. The Government has been well repaid for its practical interest in the cotton industry; a large annual revenue both direct and indirect is collected as a result of this industry becoming firmly established, whilst the excise duty on cotton at six cents of a shilling per lb. of lint added £216,988 to general revenue last year. The main work of the Department of Agriculture consists of: — (a) Arranging that all cotton growers are provided with the best cotton seed available, free of charge. (b) Directing the planting and cultivation of the crop; also picking and sorting of the cotton by the growers. ‘e) Inspection of markets, methods of marketing, inspection of ginneries, cotton stores, and methods of ginning and baling, and the marking of the bales. * Improving and maintaining the quality of the cotton grown, and increasing the yield per acre, by the carrying out of experimental work in all directions. ' Encouraging the use of implements and oxen for the cultivation of the land. (Four European Ploughing Instructors are constantly at work.) Encouraging a system of rotation of crops in which cotton and food crops are the main crops. This ensures that, whilst the area under cotton increases, the food producing areas are automatically increased. «i Strong control in every direction to keep down insect pests and diseases, and to see that all cotton plants are uprooted and destroyed every year. ¢ Mr. MILLIGAN, in thanking Mr. Simpson for his remarks, asked if any rotation was practised in conjunction with cotton growing. 131

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