Proceedings of the South & East African combined agricultural, cotton, entomological and mycological conference held at Nairobi, August, 1926

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Identifikator:: 1794857001

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-185187

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Statistik der evangelischen Liebestätigkeit

Place of publication:: Berlin-Dahlem

Publisher:: Wichern-Verl.

Year of publication:: 1925

Scope:: XI, 760 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Abschnitt I. Diakonissen-Mutterhäuser. Heimathäuser für Schwestern. Diakonen-Anstalten und Ausbildungsstätten

Collection:: Economics Books

PART II. In reply to the Chairman, Mr. Kirby stated that he was satisfied with the discussion and grateful for the information that it had evoked. THE USE OF EXTENDED NATIVE ADMINISTRATION FOR AGRICULTURAL PROGRESS. Mr. KIRBY read the following paper (referred to in the Agenda as T.C.(C)Ag.13) : — The giving of greater responsibility and powers to native administrations, under advice, has two important results: the formation of centres of main activity (native court sites) distributed usefully throughout each district, and the possession of funds by the native administration which are directly available for the benefit of those for which the administration works. The position of agriculture as the sole native industry brings it about that the best use of those funds for all is to assist in the increase and improvement of husbandry (sometimes including ploughing) and of the plants used in husbandry. (Other non-agricultural matters, such as the similar provision of secondary roads, native court buildings, dispensaries, are not for consideration here.) This means that each district community provides for its own intimate needs; whilst ail share in the necessary territorial provision under the Estimates for supplying general (including agricultural) administration, the general fostering and protection of agricultural industries, and the means of transport (roads and railways) for which Government is usually responsible in the tropics. Gavernment Estimates of Expenditure thus become territorial in extent and application; and items (often of pitiable magnitude) intended for direct, localised assistance can be considered for removal from them. At the same time the ‘‘ domestic *’ funds of each district community can be expended in intimate relationship to its needs, under the direction of Central Departments which will prevent wild expenditure lacking fitness in regard to the conditions of the area and therefore uneconomic. The agricultural phase of the matter can now be considered in more detail. An obvious use of Native Court centres is as stations where agricultural activity for the surrounding areas begins and radiates. The first stage at these is the growing of crops in the correct ways In plots belonging to chiefs or the more influential natives, in co-operation between them and the Agricultural Department, such piots being used also for crops or strains or varieties of crops whose success in the area is still uncertain; and parallel work is carried out in the school gardens. Arising from these plots, or organized side- by-side with them, are seed-farms used for obtaining quickly increased supplies of seed of crops of proved value, for distribution under careful control and record; and here again the school garden will be usefully emp.oyed, provided that care is taken that its area is not extended, for this or any other purpose, to a degree that entails drugery to its pupils, and instead of helping agriculture makes it unpopular as early as possible. Seed-farms do not serve as a useful means of merely supplying seed on a general scale to natives; for their conduct for this purpose would usually make them disproportionally large and expensive, and their output would be smallest in the most unfavour- able seasons, at the very time when, owing to partial failure of their own resources, the demand for seed by natives is greatest. 89

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