The Calcutta Gazette.Thursday September 9 1937. Supplement

The importance of these researches cannot be overestimated not only from the point of view of improvement of agrculture but that of increasing the wealth of the country. [...] Improvement of the quality of trade rices to enable Bengal to hold its own in the foreign market for rice and the growing of sugarcane as a money crop in Bengal are matters of great importance for the amelioration of the economic condition of the agricultural classes. [...] Animal husbandry.—The improvement of cattle of the province has become one of the prominent questions of the present day. [...] The functions of the Committee are to undertake agricultural technological and economic research the improvement of crop forecasting and statistics the production testing and distribution of improved seed enquiries and recommendations relating to banking and transport facilities and transport routes and the improvement of marketing in the interest of jute industry in India.. [...] action for the destruction of waterhyacinth by organisation of voluntary labour through the persuasive intervention of District and Subdivisional Officers was effectively carried on in several subdivisions of Jessore Dacca and Tippera districts and the Serajganj subdivision of Pabna district.