Editorial Notes

Abstract

Agricultural Research and the War. In our lasi issue we made a plea that the war should not in any way hamper the activities of agricultural research organisations in this country. We urged that rather than curtailing research activities, they should be strengthened in such a manner as to augment the economic prosperity of the country and the Empire. It is heart-ening to agricultural research workers in this country and to the millions who stand to benefit by their activities that two of India's foremost adminis-trators who are best qualified to speak on the subject, have expressed them-selves convincingly on the importance of agricultural research in wartime. Addressing the advisory board of the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research, Mr. P. M. Khareghat, Vice Chairman and chief administrative officer of the council has expressed the view that "research designed to develop agricultural and live stock resources of the country must continue." Sir Jagadish Prasad, member of the Viceroy's Executive Council and member in charge of Education, Health and Lands, addressing the crop and soil wing of the Board of agriculture and animal husbandry, went a step further when he laid bare a fallacious belief held in certain quarters that in times of emergency research is the first item which comes up for retrenchment. Sir Jagadish deplored this attitude and quoted the example of Great Britain where the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research came into being in 1917 at a critical period during the Great war when a sum of f 1,000,000 was made available to this purely research organisation.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.002224

Pages

431 - 431

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