BRITISH EMPIRE COTTON

Taranaki Daily News, 16 July 1930, Page 15

BRITISH EMPIRE COTTON

INCREASE IN PRUDUCTIDN. The production of cotton within the Empire in 1929 established’ a record, with an increase of over 2a per cent, over the previous year. In a quarter of a century of. progress the la st decade has scan the most rapid developments, tho London Daily Telegraph - remarks. ' ■ In some colonies—Uganda is a striking example —the cultivation haa expanded by leaps and bounds. Uganda is producing even more cotton than ■ the Sudan, though there is good reason for the Sudan’s being the most quoted instance of high-speed agricultural progress. The flourishing industry of that colony, which has been held up as a model for. the whole cottqn-grojying world, and now enriches the Gesira. territory, once utterly derelict under ' the savage tyranny of the Khalifa, has been built up in an almost ridiculously short period., Recent, investigations into the varieties of cotton which best suit the differing climatic conditions of widely separated cotton fields have borne good fruit. In Rhodesia the industry has been -.pr.aeticaily started-, afresh : .within the last:.two or three years. • In finding.mew varieties -and!'the. mea-iis to check' pests -science ‘is •' gradually solvin" some of the Indian growers’ most difficult problems. In Tanganyika the production is increasing rapidly,' and experiments which are being, conducted in both provinces, of Nigeria, give Another, prosperous cotton field. ■the scientific!- approach/ to: ; coti<m ? gwr ing is.■winning-:every-year. jigw.lv i&Urips.