Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture Bombay Province 1936-37

At the Poona Agricultural College and on practically all the Government Farms in the Presidency much experimental work on the cultivation agronomy and manuring of various crops was carried out and successful results obtained over a number of years were tested in the districts and incorporated in the propaganda work of the district staff. [...] The basis of all agricultural progress is experiment." (Report of Royal Commission on Agriculture in India.) (9) Introduction.—Scientific research work towards the improvement of the materials and methods of agriculture and in the direction of the solution of agricultural problems forms one of the most important activities of the Department of Agriculture in the Bombay Presidency. [...] (17) Physiological studies of the jowar plant.—The results of experiments on the water requirements of the jowar plant"12 confirmed the main findings of the previous year that the addition of farmyard manure or of complete artificial fertilizer dressings results in economy in the use of water. [...] Further developments in the improvment of this crop are being hampered by lack of information regarding fundamental aspects of the problem of rust resistance in the different varieties under experimentation and proposals have been submitted to the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research for the establishment of a Rust Research Station mo-i Bk Q 26-218 in the Province During the year under re [...] Special attention is being given to the design of a suitable cheap poultry house for use in the villages.21 A scheme for the investigation of the incidence of poultry diseases in railway transit and for the improvement of methods of transport of poultry by rail has been prepared in co-opertion with the Veterinary Department.approved by the Provincial Agricultural Research Committee and subm