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 II. Agriculture

Collection:: Economics Books

PART II. “1 (3) The best pupils from the Provincial training farms to proceed, if desirous, to a higher training establishment at the Laboratories near Nairobi, to supply the demand for teachers and instructors. (4) European Supervisors to organise Agricultural Societies in reserves, assist in the annual district shows, to make the customs, crops, and general agricultural welfare of the inhabitants of his Province his sole interest. At the same time to see to the introduction of more useful food crops and crops of economic importance. Mr. SIMPSON said that the paper was very interesting; the advice given was very good, but its application must be slow. The development of the native must be gradual, and his evolution from the savage state could not be too rapid. It must be remembered that, intimately connected with his social life were the factors of women and cattle. The connection between these two made the development of the native livestock industry difficult. The buying of wives was not as direct as the words imply. There was very much more in the question. When a woman left one section of the community, her place had to be taken by a substitute, namely, cattle, to maintain the strength of that community. The religious ceremonies connected with the receipt of the cattle showed that the transaction was not solely purchase. A great deal of study of this and other customs was essential before native agriculture could reach the standard that had been suggested in the paper. With regard to the development of native schools of agriculture, the Baganda had been educated very largely by the missionary societies, and, naturally, the education had been clerical. The Government had taken up the matter of native education, and considered that it was not a third-class European but a first-class African that should be produced. Agricultural education must play a great part in that development. All schools now had an agricultural bias; agriculture was a subject of primary importance and to promote the teaching all schools had gardens. Help was given by all the scientific and technical members of the Department of Agriculture. On the Government Farm at Serere, 54 students were taken and they were in residence from 1st April to 31st January. They had to take part in all farm operations, received a simple lecture weekly, and were taught the care of livestock. Best value from education could be obtained by explaining the things of every day life that surrounded them, rather than subjects of no immediate interest to native life and conditions. Mr. KIRBY observed that in Tanganyika the problem was unlike that in Kenya. There were no native reserves, and the natives could move from place to place with perfect freedom. As an example, two of the more intelligent tribes, the Wanyamwezi and the Wasukuma, had often wandered far from their original home and had formed many agricuitural settlements, which, incidentally, might serve as sources of labour. Instruction in regard to native agriculture involved co-operation between the education and agricultural departments. There was at present some concentration of teaching at central schools; and, later, native teachers would be trained, who would go out to teach agriculture in the schools, with the assistance of school gardens. It was felt that the latter system would more rapidly spread acricultural education =

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