Abstract
ORGANISED research in furtherance of industry has, in proportion to the interests involved, developed more slowly for agriculture than for industrial commodities or for processing or for transportation. The work of the Empire Cotton Growing Corporation, one of the youngest and now one of the strongest organisations for research on crop production, is, however, an example of bold development. The raw cotton position just after the War, when Great Britain was dependent on the United States for a very high proportion of her supplies, led to the founding of the Corporation in 1921. Production in the newer Empire fields (that is, excluding India) has since then increased from 30,000 to 90,000 tons. The financial support of the Corporation has come largely from the cotton spinning industry which, by promotion of research throughout its own grave depression, has shown striking faith in science. In brief, it is the object of the Corporation “to put the Empire into such a position that it can and will produce, within economic limits, its proper share of the cotton required by the world.…”
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Large-Scale Research in Crop Production—Cotton*. Nature 135, 805–806 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135805a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/135805a0