INDIAN AGRICULTURE

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 125, 31 May 1927, Page 9

INDIAN AGRICULTURE

ROYAL COMMISSION

A WIDE INVESTIGATION

(British Official Wireless.) ~\

BUGBY, 30th May. Members of the Boyal Commissions on Agriculture in India are at present in London, and in pursuit of their Investigations some important evidene* will be taken in England. The terms of the Commission's reference are very wide, covering besides the technical aspects of agriculture, general matters of rural prosperity and welfare, as well as financial credit..

The state of Indian cotton production ig one of the subject* with which the inquiry is concerned, and the cvi« dence to be taken in England will include that of several Lancashire cotton experts, for the question of marketing? and better transport is to be surveyed as well as that of improving the quality of cotton produced. The Commission is under the chairmanship of Lord Linlithgow, and the personnel includes English and Indian experts. Since they began their investigations last October, all the Indian provinces except Bihar and Orissa, and Burma, have been visited. Next winter the Commission will proceed to these localities, and to Karachi, to complete the most comprehensive survey of this vast subject which, haa «rtl been undertaken. " ' " ~