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A USEFUL account of the present position of cotton growing in Uganda is given by Col. C. N. French in a recently, published report to the Empire Cotton-Growing Corporation on his tour through the cotton areas of Uganda, Kenya, and the Mwanza district of Tanganyika. The rise and promise of Uganda as a cotton-producing region are well known. Under the careful guidance of the agricultural department, cotton has become by far the most important export of the country,, the annual production amounting to nearly 200,000 bales. Practically the whole of the crop is raised by the, natives, who send their seed cotton to the ginneries established at convenient centres under European or Indian control. The type at present grown is a variety of the famous “Nyasaland Upland.” The quality of the cotton is good and the yield not unsatisfactory, while so far no serious pests have been encountered. Col. French considers that for the time being the producing area should not be extended, but efforts made to consolidate the present position by the application of science and improved agricultural methods with the view of producing increased quantities of cotton of better and more uniform quality from the area already unde.r cultivation. He believes that the most immediate need for the attainment of this object is the strengthening of the scientific side of the agricultural department, and he puts forward suggestions for the reorganisation he considers desirable.
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Cotton-Growing in the British Empire. Nature 116, 629 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116629a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/116629a0