INTRODUCTION 



I HAVE been asked by the authors of this book, who 

 are pioneers in the agricultural development of 

 Uganda, to write a few words of introduction to a 

 subject with which the Imperial Institute has been 

 intimately associated. 



The success which is now attending agricultural 

 enterprise in the Protectorate has been promoted 

 chiefly through the unremitting work of the small 

 department established by Government, which 

 until its recent enlargement was known as the 

 Scientific and Forestry Department. Its first 

 head was Mr. Alexander Whyte, who was 

 succeeded by Mr. M. T. Dawe, to whose energy 

 and abilities much of the success is due, and of 

 whose staff one of the present authors, Mr. Brown, 

 was a member. 



