MONDAY, JUNE 29. MORNING SESSION. 

 Cotton Cultivation. 



Chairman: FIELD-MARSHAL EARL KITCHENER, K.P., G.C.B., 

 O.M., G.C.S.I., G.C.M.G., Honorary V ice-President 

 of the Congress. 



THE PRESIDENT : Gentlemen Lord Kitchener, who very 

 kindly promised to take the chair at this meeting, has not 

 yet been able to arrive from the country, and I therefore 

 propose to take the chair until he comes. I will in the 

 first place ask Mr. Arno Schmidt to read a paper on 

 " The World's Demand for Cotton, and India's Share in 

 Meeting It." 



THE WORLD'S DEMAND FOR COTTON AND INDIA'S SHARE IN 



MEETING IT. 



By ARNO SCHMIDT, 



Secretary of the International Federation of Master Cotton 

 Spinners' and Manufacturers' Associations. 



[ABSTRACT.] 



Reviewing the potentialities of the cotton-growing countries 

 of the world, one is bound to come to the conclusion that India 

 alone is the country from which the present generation can 

 hope to obtain the additional supplies of raw cotton to meet 

 the ever-increasing demand. 



The progress made in Sind 1 , Punjab, North- West Frontier 

 Province, United Provinces, Madras, Central Provinces, 

 Bombay, Burma, Assam, and Baroda, which have been visited 

 by the writer, points to the possibility of increasing the total 

 crop of Indian cotton within five years to about ten million 

 bales, but in order to achieve this the staff of agricultural 

 farming experts under Government employment must be 

 considerably enlarged. The Indian Government could not 

 invest money in a more productive way than by engaging 

 many more of these experts. A comparison of the expendi- 

 ture of other countries on agriculture shows that an increase 

 in the expenditure for agriculture by the Indian Government 



