Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture Bombay Presidency for the year 1911-12

In these countries and in others where the supreme importance of agriculture to the welfare of the nation is being realised attempts have or are being made to lay the foundations of a consistent system of education designed to meet the requirements of the rural population. [...] The Belgian Government has insisted on the divorce between urban and rural teaching and the training and career of the masters destined to teach in the town and the country is separate from the start. [...] Arrangements were made in the course of the year to import 40 tons of seed of the triumph " variety for sowing in May and June 1912 but owing to a succession of unforseen troubles in the railing and shipping of the seed the experiment of growing the cotton on a large scale has been postponed. [...] The testing of new varieties of cotton will proceed but the energies of the officers of the Department will be specially devoted to spreading the growth of the above cottons in the tracts suited to them. [...] At present our efforts in this direction have been isolated and more or less tentative and have been hampered by the postponement of the rapid expansion of the district staff' owing to the demands on the budget caused by the p for the Agricultural College and its buildings.11 During the year however the following important organised work of this nature was carried.