Food Crops
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Item Bukura Native Agricultural School, Nyanza Province, Kenya(1946) Bradford, E.LBukura Training Centre, originally a Seed Farm and Experimental Station, has passed through many vicissitudes, but its status has been primarily an African agricultural training Centre. Originally the training was for Native Agricultural Instructors, farm headmen, etc. And the course extended over a period of four years but now that departmental staff replacements only are required the training has been extended to suitable candidates anxious to study agriculture in their own interests, to fit them for more skillful management of their own land in due course.Item Plant Physiology and Agriculture(November 1939) Barnell, H.R.; (Low Temperature Research Station, Trinidad)The green plant, directly or indirectly, is the food of man, while agriculture is the industry concerned with the production of food for the world's population. The primary occupation of agriculture is therefore the culture of the plant, the efficiency of the industry depending on raising the maximum amounts of produce without loss of assets in terms of soil or its fertility. In the past, empiricism, or the method of trial-and-error, has resulted in the evolution of methods of plant and land culture which have been "efficient" in the sense of providing a sufficiency to meet the demand made on the produce of the land by its inhabitants. But as this demand increases, or as present systems of production become uneconomic, the old method of seeking to effect improvements in cultivation may not only prove cumbrous, slow and labour-wasting, but may also exercise a restricting influence on the utilization of valuable innovations inherent in scientific discoveries. The view may therefore be advanced that every effort should now, and in the future, be made to approach the problems of agriculture through the medium of fundamental research in plant physiology. In practice the appropriate combination of empirical and fundamental methods is likely to be most productive of useful resultsItem Soya Beans as a Potentially Valuable Crop for Agricultural Diversification in Central Uganda(1970) Rubaihayo P. R.; . Leakey c. L. AAuckland [1, 2, 3,4] has previously described a successful selection and breeding programme for soya beans at Nachingwea, Tanzania,which led to the release of new cultivars considered to be well adapted to areas from 5-100 S. latitude and altitudes of less than 3,000 ft. His cultivars also proved to be well suited in the similar latitude and altitude conditions in the Solomon Islands, and his programme is probably the most successful soya bean breeding programme yet carried out in latitudes of 10° or less. Mean experimental yields of the most productive new cultivars over four or five-year periods were of the order of 1,980 kg/ha. The highest yield recorded was 3,040 kg./ha. from HLS 219 at 3,800 ft. above sea level and 10° 50' S. Weiss [5] and Gray [6] have described trials of some soya bean cultivars in western Kenya where the Kenya Government have for some years been interested in developing commercial cultivation of the crop. Weiss was only able to obtain 15 cultivars for trial and failed to obtain any yields over 1,680 kg/ha. except by the application in one trial of t oz. of the growth substance triiodobenzoic acid per acre. Gray using 12 in. row spacing and the cultivar "Belgian Congo" attained encouraging yields of about 2,300 kg/ha. at Kisii in 1965 .Item What Is Wrong With European Agriculture In Kenya?(1945) Liversage, V.European agriculture in Kenya was the subject of almost continuous political preoccupation during the decade before the war. One scheme or another for putting it on its feet was under review most of the time, the majority of the schemes being concerned with raising the price of the products. In this, Kenya was of course by no means peculiar, since the same nay 'be said of most other countries. But Kenya is unlike most countries in that agriculture contributes nearly the whole of the "national income'. There appeared to be a widespread nation that European agriculture could not subsist on export prices alone, and must receive a measure of support from the local -market in order to survive. At the same time, increased white settlement was an a vowed object.
