TUESDAY, JUNE 23. AFTERNOON SESSION, 



2.30 P.M. 



Technical Education in Tropical Agriculture, 



Chairman: THE PRESIDENT. 

 THE following papers were read : 



TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN TROPICAL AGRICULTURE. 



By GERALD C. DUDGEON, F.E.S., 1 



Consulting Agriculturist to the Ministry of Agriculture, Egypt; 

 Vice-President of the International Association for 

 Tropical Agriculture. 



[ABSTRACT.] 



The rapid growth of plantation work in the tropics demands 

 the services of qualified technical men in order to obtain the 

 best results. 



The available supply of men is limited to those who have 

 previously been employed on plantations, or to men from 

 agricultural colleges often with too little knowledge of the 

 requirements to be of immediate use in tropical agriculture. 



A smaller, though important, demand for men qualified in 

 tropical agriculture, for Government service, has also sprung 

 up. Until comparatively recently such posts in the British 

 Colonies and Protectorates were filled by certificated Kew 

 men, but more recently men trained in British agricultural 

 colleges have been sent to study for a short term in Ceylon 

 with the Government Agricultural Department, and after- 

 wards to the colonies to fill Government posts. 



It is proposed that higher colleges of agriculture, one in the 

 East and another in the West Indies, should be provided and 



1 In the absence of Mr. Dudgeon this paper was read by Dr. L. H. 

 Gough. Ph.D., F.E.S., Chief, Entomological Section, Ministry of 

 Agriculture, Egypt. 



