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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APPENDIX. There are many difficulties to contend with, even In civilised countries. In America a system of what are known as cotton communities ~* has been instituted with success In certain states. Whether such a method would be possible where cotton growing is a purely native industry is doubtful. Here one has to deal with small scattered areas belonging to a very large number of people. One has to deal often with a people whose knowledge of agriculture 1s strictly limited and whose methods of marketing are primitive. It is a difficulty in all countries where cotton is cultivated; and it would assist matters greatly if this subject could be dealt with by a strong committee at the Conference. (11) THE CONTROL OF GINNERIES WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE SPREAD OF DISEASE. (Note by Mr. H. C. Sampson of the British Empire Cotton Growing Corporation.—T.C.(C)Cot.7.) It is an accepted fact that certain diseases of cotton of both insect and fungoid origin are conveyed by seed, and the question arises as to what action, if any, can be taken to lessen the risk of such spread. It is obvious that the source of the seed, viz., the ginning factory, is the place where any action desirable should, in the first instance, be taken. The custom in those parts of Africa, where cotton is a native industry, is for the cotton to be purchased in grades. These are usually three in number, graded according to the cleanliness of the sample of seed cotton and amount of freedom from leaf. In Kenya and Tanganyika there are rules under the Cotton Ordinance which read that seed of each grade of cotton ginned shall be marked and stored separately and that no dirty cotton shall be mixed with clean cotton, either before or after ginning. In Tanganyika, also, all seed has to be stored within the ginnery buildings and the owner of such seed is not allowed to retain this after March 31st of any year without written permission. It is presumed that the enforcement of this rule can be checked by the ginning figures supplied to the Director of Agriculture from each ginning factory, as these have also to report what quantities of each grade of seed cotton have been purchased in addition to the quantity of each grade ginned. Beyond this there appear to be no regulations which will assist in checking any spread of disease. It seems that something could be done if the authorities had some control over the construction, plan, and arrangement of the ginning factory. Tanganyika has some rules for this purpose, but these seem to be designed from sanitary and fire protection points of view rather than for the protection of the quality of the ginned cotton and the prevention of seed mixing. The Indian Cotton Committee were so impressed with this aspect of the question that they made a specific recommendation that all ginning factories erected in the future should conform to a standard plan and in factories where roller gins are used laid down the dimension for the seed cotton platform, the distance between gins, and for separate entrances for seed cotton and exits for lint (para. 225). In this paragraph also (section K) it deals with the disposal of seed with special reference to seed infected by pink bollworm. This committee even went so far as to publish standard plans which they considered 319

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