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10. The division of the Ministry into a series of sections. 



Such a division is already in existence, and I am not so much, 

 therefore, concerned with the principle as with the lines of demarcation. 

 Here, too, I am only concerned with three sections, and I will limit 

 my remarks to these. 



The Botanical Section at the present moment administers such 

 experimental farms as do exist. There is also a cadre of inspectors 

 under an Inspector-General concerned at the present time not merely 

 with district work but with the enforcement of agricultural legislative 

 measures. This latter is, in my opinion, entirely objectionable. 

 It brings the Ministry before the agricultural population as primarily 

 a repressive body, whereas its true function is to appear as, and to be, 

 the cultivators' friend. Such police work should be otherwise provided 

 for. With this work removed, the inspectors will form a body of 

 circle officers under the Inspector-General and form a section com- 

 parable with the other sections of the Ministry. Their work will be 

 primarily to gain the confidence of the people, for it is only by so doing 

 that they will be able efficiently to perform the duty of supervising 

 the work involved by the licensing system, from the inspection of crops 

 to the marking of the seed. They will be responsible for the experi- 

 mental and seed development work on the farms of their circle, and, 

 if the inspection work is not to suffer, two officers will be required for 

 each circle, the senior undertaking the inspection and the junior the 

 experimental work. 



This recommendation, then, suggests the institution of an 

 Agricultural Section which will include the present inspectorate. 

 The functions of this section will be limited to the extent that the work 

 of administering such legislative measures as are passed will be 

 removed, but be increased to the extent that charge of the experimental 

 and seed farms will be added. 



In like manner, the work at present carried out by the Commercial 

 Section is highly specialized and distinct from that of the Agricultural 

 Section as here defined. This section should act independently, 

 and the liaison between it and the Agricultural Section will be main- 

 tained through the Ministerial Committee which forms the subject of 

 the next recommendation. 



11. The establishment of a Ministerial Cotton Committee, composed 

 of the head of sections concerned and possessing power to co-opt. 



; H The functions of this committee have been dealt with in the body 

 of this report. One of its main functions will be the co-ordination of 

 the work of the various sections. As I have pointed out, the source 

 of danger lies at the point where development passes from one section 

 to another, and particular care must be taken to prevent the encroach- 



