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VI. To improve the organisation, equipment and 

 credit of the cultivators, the co-operative movement 

 should be steadily expanded to the full extent that 

 the requisite organising and managing ability for the 

 purpose can be found. The development of manu- 

 facturing industry and commercial enterprise, also, 

 will help in the same direction. 



VII. The work of technical research, demonstra- 

 tion and instruction should be steadily expanded with 

 the help of generous financial grants, as the staff 

 necessary to undertake such expansion becomes 

 available. 



VIII. The great advantage to the small farmer of 

 living on his farm, and not at a distance of several 

 miles, should be recognised. Cultivators should be 

 encouraged to build houses on their holdings ; and 

 when a village site becomes overcrowded, the oppor- 

 tunity should be taken, as far as possible, to create 

 a detached hamlet rather than to enlarge the existing 

 village site. 



IX. The advantages to be derived from the various 

 measures mentioned above will be secured through 

 the medium of increased activity on the part of the 

 cultivators. The quality of a man's work depends 

 largely on the circumstances in which he performs it. 

 The cultivator living on a holding of suitable size 

 and shape, well equipped and organised, will work 

 much better than the man who has none of these 

 advantages. Similarly the man who is protected by 

 irrigation facilities against the worst disasters arising 



