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Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture in Sind For the Year 1935-36

1937

The Goverment Ginnery which is situated alongside the workshop was utilised for the ginning of all the departmental cotton crops and is a great asset in the scheme for the extension of the seed of improved cotton varieties in the districts. [...] During the year under report the Government of India in pursuan-c of their decision to came to the assistance of provincial revenues in financing schemes for development of the Barrage areas of Sind which might be beyond the current resources of the Government of Bombay sanctioned the undenoted grants :— 34.--Agriculture—Central. [...] t o. Summary of main features of the work of the Deparment during the year.—The year under report has witnessed a Considerable increase in the activities of the Agricultural Department in Sind on account of the expansion of the district staff the reorganization of the district dg monstration and propaganda work and the establishment of an Agricultural Engineering Section of the Department. [...] The improvement of cotton cultivation and agrnomy.—In order to obtain for the cotton-growers of Sind the full benefit of the introduction and extension of improved varieties of cotton it is very essential that the methods of cotton cultivation practised in the Barrage areas should be improved. [...] Among other important subjects with which the Sind Cotton Committee has had to deal in the interests of the cottogrowers of the Province mention may be made of control of ginning factory construction in the Barrage areas the prevetion of malaria in the cotton-growing tracts improvement of official cotton forecasts in Sind and the establishment of reglated cotton markets.25 Both the gro
agriculture environment
Pages
176
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.141644
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-v W.J. Jenkins view
Chapter I.Administration Organization and Finance
1-6 unknown view
Chapter II.Features of the Year
7-13 unknown view
Chapter III.Agricultural Research and Investigation
14-46 unknown view
Chapter IV.Agricultural Propaganda
47-58 unknown view
Chapter V.Miscellaneous Activities
59-64 unknown view
Appendix A
65-69 unknown view
Appendix B
70-117 unknown view
Appendix C
118-133 unknown view
Appendix D
134-154 unknown view
Appendix E
155-161 unknown view
Appendix F
162-171 unknown view

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