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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al APPENDIX, all future factories to be erected should adopt. No definite regulations other than this were made about the disposal of seed, but this is hardly necessary under Indian conditions, where the seed will always find a ready sale as cattle food. In Africa, however, the matter is different. In many parts of the country the seed has no commercial value; some of it is certainly used for engine fuel to run the factory with, but the rest as often as not is left out in a heap in the open to rot. In Africa also, the saw gin is frequently installed and, unless the condenser is cleaned out thoroughly before ginning another grade of cotton, there is bound to be considerable mixing of seed with the next grade to be ginned. It appears that this is an aspect of ginning which might be investigated to see what steps can be taken to ensure that the quality of seed for sowing is the best procurable, and that all factory precautions can be taken to prevent the spread of disease. (12) TEMPORARY EXCHANGE OF TECHNICAL SPECIALISTS BETWEEN DEPENDENCIES. (Paper by the Director of Agriculture, Tanganyika Territory. . —T.C.(C)Cot.11.) The purpose of this would be to make the widest possible use of the knowledge and experience of the different specialists and in turn to increase their own knowledge and experience under the larger variety of conditions that would be made available to them. It is manifest that cotton investigations and cotton specialists would benefit by such a scheme. It should be a matter for interesting discussion as to whether it would be of important benefit to other technical agricultural officers such as agricultural economists and chemists, and myecologists and entomologists. In any case it would be a necessary part of the scheme to ensure that such temporary exchange would not interfere with the continuity of the work and investigations of outgoing officers. The latter would be responsible for informing incoming officers fully of the details, purposes and intended development of their work, and these would be strictly responsible in an even greater degree for ensuring (as far as humanly possible) that no interference or interruption occurred in regard to that work. Administrative arrangeinents and control for such a scheme would be simple. What is not as simple is the making of a plan to ensure that all participating dependencies obtained a fair share of the exchange, and that the scheme was not followed desultorily or was likely eventually to fall through. The formulation of such a plan is a matter for discussion. It is suggested as a basis that the scope of the duties of a technical officer should for the purpose include the obligation to spend a definite proportion (interrupted or not interrupted ?) of each period of two consecutive tours (or period of four years) on exchange, and that each Director of Agriculture in the countries participating in the scheme should be made responsible for advising his Government in good time when the exchange period of an officer was due. Not the least useful part of the work of those delegates at agricultural conferences occupying administrative posts would be to devise a working basis for the exchanges required in the period to 0

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