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.

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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314 APPENDIX. These regulations, of which a summary is given above, refer, it should be noted, to a crop which has been or is being newly introduced into countries where there is very little settled agriculture, as it is known in more civilised parts of the world. In iact, many of the people who are now being encouraged to grow eotton are not true agriculturists at all. Many of them are, «however, beginning to welcome the introduction of a crop which provides for them the means of earning money to pay their taxes and for such luxuries as they are beginning to require, but there is a grave danger that the encouragement of a single money crop, such as cotton, may in time lead to conditions which are not to the benefit of the ultimate success of this crop. This danger is all the gréater in such parts where there 1s no real ownership of land and where natives can more or less at will clear new land to any extent for cultivation. Where the native poulation is dense this means the rapid denudation of forest growth for opening up new gardens for cotton-growing gardens, which are likely to be abandoned after the initial fertility of the land is exhausted. The native has not yet learned to look upon his cotton patch as part of his holding, if it can be called such, where he can grow his food crops in rotation with cotton. One usually sees that the food crop area is concentrated near the village, while the cotton lands are further afield. In some parts of the country one already sees signs of pressure on the land on account of the introduction of cotton and the promiscuous methods which are permitted the native in the taking up of land. It seems, therefore, that the time has come to look to the future and to attempt to settle the native on the land as a farmer and not merely a squatter, and to develop his farming in general, rather than to concentrate merely on one crop. Tanganyika. cotton regulations appear to be the only ones which make any attempt to control the cultivation of cotton and bring it into line with the other crops which the native grows, and even here it seems possible that the means taken may defeat the ends intended. This refers especially to Rule 11, which, as far as can be seen, will encourage the native to continue to open up fresh and abandon old land, if the rule is in any way strictly enforced. This matter is probably more a question of land policy and settlement rather than agriculture, but if such danger exists, as has been pointed out in this note, then it is for the agricultural authorities to bring this to the notice of their several Governments, if they have not already done so. (6) THE CONSIDERATION OF THE QUESTION OF THE MOVEMENTS OF COTTON, SEED COTTON, AND SEED FROM ONE TERRITORY TO ANOTHER. (Note by Mr. H. C. Sampson of the British Empire Cotton Growing Corporation.—T.C.(C)Cot.2.) The regulations at present in force controlling the movements of cotton, whether seed, seed cotton, or lint from one part of East or South Africa to another are based very largely on the fear of introducing insect or fungoid pests, which may not at present occur. In addition to this, there is the necessity especially where cotton growing is a native industry, of regulating such movements in order to maintain the purity of the seed supply.

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