And Our further will and pleasure is that you do, with as little delay as possible, report to Us under your hands and seals, or under the hands and seals of any three or more of you, your opinion upon the matters herein submitted for your consideration. Given at Our Court at Windsor, the twenty-third day of April, 1926, in the sixteenth year of Our Reign. By His Majesty's Command, MO Y 286 b 2 Lack of communications and of organised trade and commerce 3 Lack of internal security PAGE 1 56789 10 11 11 12 12 13 28 The present position of Pusa 29 Other activities of the Imperial Department of Agriculture 30 The Indian Central Cotton Committee The reorganisation of 1905 31 (ii) Provincial 32 The constitutional changes of 1919 33 The present position of the Indian Agricultural Service 34 The work of the Agricultural and Veterinary Departments 29 30 PARA. 37 Organisation for agricultural research in the United States 38 Organisation for agricultural research in Australia 42 Constitution of a governing body for Pusa Constitution and functions of an Imperial Council of Agricul tural Research (i) Promotion, guidance and co-ordination of agricultural 43 44 45 (ii) Promotion, guidance and control of veterinary research 46 (iv) Clearing house of information (vi) Meetings of experts 49 Position of the Council in regard to research 50 Expenditure from central revenues on agricultural research Personnel of the Council (iii) The members of the Council 54 Committees of the Council 55 The headquarters of the Council 56 Flexibility of the constitution proposed for the Council 57 Provincial Committees 58 The Agricultural Adviser to the Government of India 59 The position of Pusa and the qualifications of the Director 60 Pusa as an educational centre 51 (i) The Chairman 52 (i) The whole-time members of the Council and the Secre tariat 53 56 57 64 Internal co-ordination and co-operation in research institutes 65 Constitution of crop committees 61 Affiliation of Pusa to a university 62 The position of the universities in regard to agricultural research 60 63 The provincial research institutes 48 50 50 105 Agricultural implements 101 102 105 106 107 machinery 106 Organisation of the agricultural engineering section 107 Scope of research work on agricultural implements and 108 Possibilities of power machinery 109 Railway rates on agricultural machinery and implements 109 110 .. 113 114 110 Rebate of the import duty on iron and steel used in the manufacture of agricultural implements and machinery .. 114 111 Simultaneous introduction of improved varieties of crops and improved methods of cultivation 116 112 Problems of cultivation in dry and precarious tracts 116 Crop protection— 113 (a) External .. 117 114 (b) Internal protection (i) Protection against pests and diseases 118 115 116 (ii) Protection against deterioration due to mixing of seed. 120 121 |