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

1936

The Goverment Ginnery which is situated alongside the workshop was utilise d for the gin ning 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. [...] 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 demonstration and propaganda work and the establishment of an Agricultural Engineering Section of the Department. [...] The " duty " experiment carried out by the Agricultural Department during the year on the irrigation of the rice crop in the Fuleli Canal areas was a development of much importance and similar demonstrations of the technique of irrigation are necessary on other crops and in other tracts of Sind. [...] of cotton cultivation under the Lloyd Barrage and Canal Systems in Sind.--Probably the most outstanding feature of agricultural development in Sind since the opening of the Lloyd Barrage and Canal Systems in Janary 1932 is the rapid and wide-spread expansion of cotton cultivation in the Province. [...] 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
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Pages
175
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.146101
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iv unknown 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
Appendices
65-170 unknown view
Backmatter
171-171 unknown view

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