Agriculture in the Tropics: An Elementary Treatise (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Agriculture in the Tropics: An Elementary Treatise

The tropics cover so enormous an area that it is obvious that I can only write of much of it from reading, though the general principles set forth will apply to all countries. My own experience is mainly confined to Asia, in Ceylon, India, Java, and the Federated Malay States. On the agriculture of the last named I have written a comprehensive report, which often forms the basis of the present work, and I am much indebted to the Government of that dependency for allowing the use of it. I have also visited the American tropics, but have not been in tropical Africa, though the heads (to be) of many African departments of agriculture have come to Ceylon for part of their training.

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Excerpt from Agriculture in the Tropics: An Elementary Treatise

During the last twenty-five years a great deal of attention has been drawn to agriculture in the tropics, as to other subjects connected with the same regions of the world. Not only do people travel more in the tropical regions, not only has there been great rivalry between the nations of the North in acquiring and developing colonies there, but also such agricultural phenomena as the collapse of coffee planting and the rise of cinchona, cacao, and tea in Ceylon, the depression of sugar in the West Indies and the formation of an Imperial Department of Agriculture to deal with the situation, the recent rise of rubber planting in Ceylon, the Federated Malay States, Mexico, and other tropical countries, and the depression in cotton, followed by the formation of the British Cotton Growing Association, and the extension of the cultivation of this crop in the West Indies and the British African colonies, have all in themselves excited very general interest. This has shown itself, among other things, in the formation of departments of agriculture in most of the colonies of the tropics.

The danger is now that we may try to go too rapidly, without a proper thinking out of the subject.

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