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 III. Cotton

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’ ENCLOSURE TO PART III. Mr. CAMERON thought that as regards Southern Rhodesia this would necessarily prove the case in a very short time, as only very few farmers grew cotton which was of a sufficiently high standard to pass an inspection. If there were a good year next year there would be sufficient good seed obtainable. Mr. KIRBY thought it was better to make use of properly acclimatised seed rather than to bring in ‘seed from any area where different climatic conditions existed. 9. SEED DISTRIBUTION. The CHAIRMAN (Mr. Milligan) opened the discussion by remark- ing that in countries where there were European cotton farmers there was no difficulty in being able to multipy the supply of new seed, but in native areas it was an entirely different matter; the only solution that he could see for these areas was the establishment of seed farms as the first step for multiplication. Mr. DUCKER said that in Nyasaland there were certain large native areas and other smaller isolated areas; the idea was to use the smaller areas as stepping stones from pure strain stocks at the stations or elsewhere to the general crop of the country. Mr. WOOD said that in Tanganyika there were no isolated areas of that sort which could be used. Mr. KOCH said that in South Africa if a strain was considered suitable, about 100 acres of it was grown at an experimental farm; the seed from that was distributed to about a dozen progressive European growers in suitable areas; these growers have to sign an agreement. (Copy of the agreement is included in the Appendix.) Mr. NYE remarked that in Uganda there were no European cotton farmers and there were not sufficient seed farms to be able to multiply the seed to supply the whole country; as much as possible was produced at the experimental station and this seed was distributed to two or three chiefs who grew this away from all other cotton. The danger was that, they had to rely on the ginnery to keep the seed separate. After this one area, served by one ginnery, was selected, the seed was requisitioned and gradually the area was enlarged until finally the whole district was supplied. Mr. WOOD expressed the opinion which he supported from his own experience that the best way to ensure the economical distribution of a valuable strain was to sell it at a price markedly above the ordinary market price. Mr. CAMERON strongly supported the view and suggested that seed should be made up in 10 lbs. and 20 lbs. packets and sold at about 1/- a lb., so that an issue of small packets could be made to a large number of farmers. Mr. PARNELL said this method had been tried, but experience showed that eventually seed issued in small quantities was lost; he considered that concentration was a better method. The small packet method was much too dangerous, as it was liable to get mixed in ginning. The CHAIRMAN (Mr. Milligan) said that taking the multiplication rate as 15 times to supply, say, 60,000 acres meant putting out blocks 154

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