Basic Research in Agriculture - A Brief History of Research at Amani 1928-1947

Abstract

In 1927 the British and East Mriean Governments reopened the old German research institute at Amani as a centre for " long-range and widerange" research. Under the direction of William Now~ll to 1936 and A.G.G. Hill thereafter, research proceeded for some twenty years until Amani's identity became merged into a new research organisation. The following brief account of these researches is presented iJ:t order that the reader may understand something of the aims and methods of the research worker, of the kind of results he obtains, and of the way thatthese results ean influence agriculture.