COTTON GROWING

Hokitika Guardian, 13 April 1929, Page 2

COTTON GROWING

PROGRESS IN INDIA AND . SUDAN.

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, April 10.

The progress of cotton-growing in the Sudan, India, and Iraq is discussed in a preliminary report issued by Sir William Hamburg, managing director of the .British Cotton Growers’ Association, who has just visited those countries. He says that the progress made in Gezira during the last three years has been enormous and reflects great credit on the Sudan Government, 130,000 acres being under cotton of the sakel type. At the researen station in the Sudan some splendid results had been achieved. [Referring to the Association’s estates and ginneries of Khanewal, in the Punjab, and elsewhere in India, he describes, the Sukkar Barrage as a colossal undertaking, 16 spans of 60 feet each being completed last year. The engineers expect to complete a further 23 spans for next year. This will leave 27 spans for next year, making 66 spans in all. There are four canals on the Mt bank and three on the right, and the masonry for these is virtually completed. Some 10,000 men are engaged on the work and it is expected that it will be completed by 1932.

The report shows that in Iraq, where King Feisal is a keen cotton grower, progress is being made, production having’ increased from 60 hales in 1921 to 5100 bales last year.