Editorial

Abstract

The Thirty-second College Day and Conference :The annual College Day and Conference was a great success.The conference had for the main topic of discussion,"How best to translate the results of research into farming practices" and a number of interesting papers dealing with the various aspects of the problem were contributed.The Premier of Madras who inaugrated the conference after analying the various causes that led to the present food situation in the country,dwelt on the steps of the conditions of the agriculturist and emphasised the need for making an all-out effort to reach the target of self-sufficiency within the prescribed time limit of two years.He exhorted the public servants, - especially the members of the Agricultural department to approach the cultivator in a spirit of service and sympathy rather one of patronage and power,in order to 'harmonise the result of researches in the laboratories with the traditi- onal ways of cultivators'.It is significient that not only the Premier butalso the Minister for Agriculture and the Directo or of the right approach to the ryot as the first essential towards successful propoganda in agricultural matters.All the three stressed that the Indian ryot in spite of his illiteracy and poverty is not so ignorant of agricultural matters as he was supposed to be by superficial observers.The members of the Agricultural department more than any others are fully aware of this fact and we suppose it was the patronising and superior attitude assumed by the foreign exports in the earlier years that has led to the general belief that the 'Scientific Exper'is belittling the agricultural knowledge of the Indian Cultivator.But,nevertheless,it is well to be reminded of the fact and we would request the younger members of the department to make a special note of this advice.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.194969

Pages

347 - 348

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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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