AGRICULTURE PROBLEMS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 141, 5 September 1927, Page 10

AGRICULTURE PROBLEMS

RESEARCH CONFERENCE MEETING IN LONDON (British Official Wireless. — Copyright) RUGBY’, Friday. The great variety of problems which have to be faced by agriculturists in different parts of the Empire will be discussed at the Imperial Agricultural Research Conference, which is to be commenced in London next month. The Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Walter E. Guinness, will preside. About 7(» delegates from overseas will attend. They will come from places where such different conditions prevail as Palestine, the Barbadoes, the Leeward Island, the Malay States and Zanzibar. Each delegate will have his difficulties to discuss, whether they be in growing rubber, sugar, cotton, wheat or meat.

Many parts of the Empire are only on the threshold of development and are in constant need of scientific assistance. Canada, for example, is experimenting in an effort to extend her wheat-growing belt. If this can be stretched another 100 miles to the north many thousands of acres of virgin land will be brought into service in food production. The destruction of insect pests is a problem which has to be faced all over the Empire. Among the other subjects to be considered are an extension of the system of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology and Mycology to other departments of agricultural science, an interchange of information among agricultural research workers, the recruitment, training and interchange of workers and the development of a chain of agricultural research stations throughout the Empire.—A. and N.Z.