TUESDAY, JUNE 23.—AFTERNOON SESSION, 
2.30 P.M. 
Technical Education in Tropical Agriculture, 
Chairman: THE PRESIDENT. 
Tue following papers were read :— 
TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN TROPICAL AGRICULTURE. 
By Geratp C. Dupceon, F.E.S.,* 
Consulting Agriculturist to the Ministry of Agriculture, Egypt; 
Vice-President of the International Association for 
Tropical Agriculture. 
[ ABSTRACT. | 
The rapid growth of plantation work in the tropics demands 
the services of qualified technical men in order to obtain the 
best results. 
The available supply of men is limited to those who have 
previously been employed on plantations, or to men from 
agricultural colleges often with too little knowledge of the 
requirements to be of immediate use in tropical agriculture. 
A smaller, though important, demand for men qualified in 
tropical agriculture, for Government service, has also sprung 
up. Until comparatively recently such posts in the British 
Colonies and Protectorates were filled by certificated Kew 
men, but more recently men trained in British agricultural 
colleges have been sent to study for a short term in Ceylon 
with the Government Agricultural Department, and after- 
wards to the colonies to fill Government posts. 
It is proposed that higher colleges of agriculture, one in the 
East and another in the West Indies, should be provided and 
1 In the absence of Mr. Dudgeon this paper was read by Dr. L. H. 
Gough, Ph.D., F.E.S., Chief, Entomological Section, Ministry of 
Agriculture, Egypt. . 
