116 SCIENTIFIC REPORTS OF THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH 



APPENDIX. 



REPORT OF THE SECRETARY, SUGAR BUREAU. 

 (Wynne Sayer B.A.) 



I was placed on special duty for a period of two years with 

 effect from 20th January, 1919, to undertake the collection of all 

 available information in connection with the sugar industry in India, 

 pending a further consideration by the Government of India cf 

 the question of establishing a Sugar Bureau. An establishment of 

 two recorders, .two clerks, and two typists, with one Superintendent, 

 wasi sanctioned to enable me to carry on the work, but one of these 

 posts has been vacant for the whole time, the pay and the temporary 

 position not being sufficient to attract a suitable man. The desig- 

 nation of my post was changed to that of the Secretary, Sugar 

 Bureau, with effect from 13th April, 1919. 



It will not be out of place here to give a brief history of the 

 successive steps Government have taken to encourage the industry, 

 in the course of which this office came to be created. 



Scientific work on the sugarcane crop was started at Manjri in 

 the Bombay Presidency by Mr. Mollisoh in 1894 and at Samalkot in 

 Madras by Dr. Barber towards the close of the last century. In 

 these two Presidencies some valuable results were obtained. In 

 Bengal and the United Provinces also some work had been done. 

 But it was after the Agricultural Departments were re-organized by 

 Lord Curzon's Government in 1905 that the foundations of the im- 

 portant work being done by Mr. G. Clarke at Shahjahanpur, Mr. 

 Somers Taylor and the late Mr. Woodhouse at Sabour, Mr. 

 Meggitt in Assam, Mr. Clouston in the Central Provinces, and 

 Mr. Robertson Brown at Peshawar in the North-West Frontier 

 Province were laid, while the work already in progress in Madras 

 and Bombay was expanded. 



In 1911 Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya moved a resolution in 

 the Imperial Legislative Council recommending that the duty on 

 imported sugar should be so raised as to make it possible for the 

 indigenous sugar industry to survive the competition to which 

 it was exposed. The late Mr. Gokhale "moved an amendment 

 recommending that Government should order an enquiry by a 

 Committee of competent persons into the present condition of the 

 sugar industry in India with a view to ascertaining what action 

 could and should be taken by the State to save the industry from 

 the threatened ruin. He pointed out that there was a great deal 

 that Government could do for the industry even if it did not 

 impose a high protective tariff, in the matter, for instance, of 



