An Experiment in Native Mixed Farming in the Nyanza Province of Kenya

Abstract

The present system of shifting cultivation and consequent waste in the native reserves can only produce enough food for family needs, with a small balance of cash covering taxes and a few articles of clothing. This is the condition of the average cultivator in the more thickly populated parts of the Nyanza Province of Kenya, who suffers from malnutrition and an inheritance of rapidly deteriorating, though once richly afforested and protected, land.