NOTES ON AGRICULTURE IN CYPRUS AND ITS 



PRODUCTS l 



BY W. BEVAN 



Director of Agriculture, Cyprus 



THE intention of these notes is to make available to those 

 interested in the agriculture of Cyprus some of the informa- 

 tion scattered in various reports, leaflets and correspond- 

 ence not readily accessible to the general public. 



It has long been a matter of regret to the writer that 

 the valuable stores of information collected with so much 

 care and ability by the late Mr. Panayiotis Gennadius, 

 formerly Director of Agriculture in Cyprus, through having 

 been published in Greek only, have remained beyond the 

 reach of many who might otherwise have derived benefit 

 from a study of his works. His writings on the general 

 agriculture of the " Near East " are voluminous and 

 comprehensive, and show an intimate knowledge of the 

 subject as well as of the practices and customs of agri- 

 culturists in these regions. The results of his labours 

 are mainly embodied in his Helleniki Georgia and his 

 Phytologikon Lexicon, both of which are works of recog- 

 nised authority. During his eight years (1896-1903) 

 spent in Cyprus Mr. Gennadius devoted himself specially 

 to a study of the agricultural conditions and needs of the 

 Island, and the notes and reports made by him have been, 

 to a large extent, taken as the basis of the present Notes. 



During the sixteen years since he left the Island many 

 changes have taken place, and the more receptive and 

 enlightened attitude of the rising generation of farmers 

 has helped to bring about various improvements, and a 

 greater readiness has been shown to adopt modern methods. 

 In compiling the present Notes I have drawn freely from 

 the articles which have appeared for many years in the 

 Cyprus Agricultural Journal (formerly Cyprus Journal), 

 the official publication of the Agricultural Department, 

 and which I have edited ; I have also taken advantage of 



1 Reprinted from the BULLETIN OF THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE, 1919. 



