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 V. General

Collection:: Economics Books

PART V. it would not have received the support given to it were it not for the fact that valuable buildings and other improvements were already in existence there, and the institution had traditions. It was essential that a Research Institute which would eventually have to rely to a large extent upon public support should be accessible and preferably in the ‘‘ centre of things,” and he was afraid that Amani might in future suffer because of its situation. It was suggested that research in East African territories should be centred at Amani. He would support a proposal to centralise research at Amani provided that it was confined chiefly to fundamental research. Other proposals had been made that research workers should be taken away from East African Territories and centred at Amani. He thought this would be impracticable and unsound and that no Director of Agriculture could be expected to hold himself responsible for the duties which his post entailed if his scientific and technical officers were removed from the Department under his control. Amani could and should be very useful to carry out work complementary and supplementary to the work of Departments of Agriculture, and it could be of great assistance to officers of Depart- ments of Agriculture in dealing with scientific. problems as applied to agriculture; it should keep in close touch with and co-ordinate work in all the East African Territories, and also act as a ‘‘ clearing-house ”’ for research work. It could only succeed by co-operation with the Departments of Agriculture. Dealing with the organisation of Amani, Mr. Holm read the following extracts from the Report of the Directors of Agriculture (1921), and said that he believed that the opinions then expressed were still held by them: — “ We are convinced that the situation of the Institute and the natural conditions which exist there, as well as its facilities, present and potential, are adapted to no other purpose, if the Institute is to serve usefully the whole of the Dependencies, than that of research in applied botanical science and its associated branches. We are agreed, on the other hand, that for this purpose the Institute may well prove to be a most valuable asset to the Dependencies and that no effort should be spared to prevent its abandonment or surrender, or its use for any other purpose.” ‘“ Apart from the specific amendments, represented in Estimates “B’ and ‘““ C7’ to the scheme, which the Secretary of State elicited from Sir David Prain, we have only to criticise the proposal, to which we take the strongest possible exception, that the scientific officers of the Departments of Agriculture, who are capable of filling the research posts to be created, should be transferred to the Institute, thus releasing funds for the Institute by economising on the staffing of the Departments.” ““ The supposition that the centralisation of research will allow the divorce of research from Departmental services must, we feel, be strongly resisted. - Again it must be realised that these are vast, new countries, embracing considerable variety in natural conditions, and, therefore, in plant and insect life, a variety which the Institute will not be able to provide for that class of investigation in which natural conditions form a fundamental and inseparable factor of the problem under enquiry. Neither will the institute have a staff of such dimensions in each branch of its researches that it will be able to meet all calls for local investigation in the five dependencies. The distances 27

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