Minutes of the Conference of the Departments of Agriculture Industries and Co-operation and of the Veterinary Department Held on the 4th and 5th July 1924

The next requirement is the practical testing in different parts of the province of the results of the research experments and the successful! demonstration to the cultivators of the value of the improved seeds or methods of cultivation. [...] The reason for this is to be sought in the first place in our want of organisation and system in the regulation of this important industry and secondly in our loss of the conception of the dignity of labour as a consequence of which the educated classes have given up the practice of agriculture as a profession and have left it to be pursued by the illiterate sections of the community. [...] Government are prepared to lend every assistance and encouragement to the formation of such associations and all that is needed is the active co-operation of the educated members of the community without which it is obviously impossible to organise the cultivators and to ensure the successful working of the associations. [...] In all these matters a great deal of propaganda is necessary to impress the essential principles of cattle-breeding among the population to popularise the use of sera and other disease preventives to introduce the cultivation of fodder crop and to encourage the holding of cattle shows where correct information on the subject of cattle-breeding may be propagated to the people. [...] Government will lend the services of their officers for the work of organisation but the work of propaganda is even as important as the work of organisation and for this work I appeal to the zamindars who are the real leaders of the people and also to the educated classes and I can assure them that in the strength of cultivators depends ultimately their own welfare and the stability of the count