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AT a meeting of the Administrative Council of the Empire Cotton Growing Corporation held in Manchester on May 25, it was announced that the Corporation has recently acceded to a request from the Indian Central Cotton Committee that Dr. T. G. Mason should be permitted to spend some months in India to advise in connexion with an investigation into the causes of the periodic failure of the cotton crop in the Punjab. It was also reported that in letters that had been received from Prof. J. W. Munro, who is making a tour in Africa to advise the Corporation on its work on cotton insect pest control, he has written enthusiastically of the high quality of the work that was being carried out by the Cor poration's staff, and recommended that it should continue to receive full support. An addition to the staff in Nyasaland may be necessary. It was naturally impossible to say whether it would prove possible to devise any practical measures for controlling these pests, but pests constituted the limiting factor in cotton-growing throughout considerable areas in Africa, and the Corporation should therefore leave nothing undone which might bring to light any information that might possibly lead to a reduction in the loss of crop thus caused.
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The Empire Cotton Growing Corporation. Nature 139, 1048 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/1391048b0
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