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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321 APPENDIX. When the regulations were first drafted in 1910, it was not anticipated that the community, and consequently the plant imports, would increase as they have done. Knowledge of the great diversity of our agriculture and its importance in our economic life has rapidly increased. Modern means of transportation have brought about a greater dispersion of injurious pests and diseases. Hence, the regulations have been altered, from time ‘to time, and in all probability will be again altered, so that they may be kept up to date and may afford the best protection possible. It is laid down definitely in the regulations (para. 14) that all plants and seeds imported into the Colony shall be examined by an inspector and, as it is useless to have such work done in a spasmodic way, and as all plans for plant protection by inspection should be made so that they will continue unbroken for a long period of years, qualified officers of the Department of Agriculture are gazetted as inspectors in addition to the Plant Import Inspector who is stationed at the Port of Entry. The Plant Import Inspector examines all consignments which arrive at the Coast. In addition to these large numbers of packages of plants and seeds—especially seeds—arrive by parcel post and are examined at the G.P.O., Nairobi, by one of the officers already mentioned. Any package or parcel containing any imported plant or seed must bear on the outside thereof a label on which shall be set forth (a) the full name of the variety and place of origin of such plant or seed, (b) the name and address of the nursery or person supplying such plant or seed. Ordinary flowers or vegetable seeds, garden plants, ete., do not require to have a permit although such a permit, first obtained, greatly facilitates inspection. For certain plants or seeds a permit must first be obtained from the Director of Agriculture. The usual method is for the applicant to write to the Director of Agriculture asking that a permit be granted for the importation, stating number and varieties and the source of origin. This application is scrutinised by the entomologist and mycologist and may be passed, altered or have some special conditions attached. A permit on the prescribed form is then made out at the Head Office, a copy being sent to each of the following: The applicant, the Plant Import Inspector, Entomologist, and Mycologist. Thus as complete a record as possible is kept of all such importations. Those plants and seeds for which a permit is necessary are detailed in the regulations and are as follows: — (a) Peach stones—Peach yellows. (b) Apple and pear stocks or cuttings. The term *° stocks " shall include young rooted plants for budding or grafting purposes; woolly aphis; various fungi. Potatoes—wart ~~ disease (synchytrium endobioticum ). Permission, however, to import seed potatoes from the United Kingdom will be granted if : [. The variety thereof is included in a list published by the Ministry of Agriculture of England and Wales of varieties immune from wart disease. A u&

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