Abstract Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Meeting of the Indian Central Cotton Committee Bombay Held on the 29th and 30th January 1934

The President moved the following resolution :— RESOLUTION—" That the Cotton Forecast Improvement SuCommittee be composed of the following :- The President The Director General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics The Director of Agriculture Bombay Presidency The Director of Agriculture Punjab The Director of Agriculture Madras The Director of Agriculture United Provinces The Dir [...] F. south of it till a better strain that suited both regions was evolved went into the history of the controversy in regard to the merits of the two strains and recalled the successive steps which the Agricultural Department took on the recommendations of the Indian Central Cotton Committee and the varying reactions which the marketing fortunes of the two different strains evoked when the Agric [...] It was pointed out that the Goverment of Bombay and the United Provinces had their systems of weight one based on the tola and the other on the pound avoirdupois and the views elicited from other provincial Governments had advocated the adoption of either of the two according to the needs of the particular province. [...] It was conceded that the Board of Governors of the Institute as a directive body on which the Indian Central Cotton Committee was represented had the right to lay down its policy ; but the main contention was whether the funds provided by the Committee for the specific purpose of promoting research could be diverted to undetakings not intended by the Committee and in the face of the unanimous [...] It was stressed that in pressing the claims of Indian cottons the interests of the growers had all along been the chief concern in which the millowners were quite willing to make whatever sacrifices they were urged to in the firm belief that the prosperity of the industry was linked up with the interests of the growers.