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Dr. B. A. Keen has been appointed director of the new East African Agricultural and Forestry Research Organisation. The Organisation will work in close association with the corresponding Veterinary Organisation and the Agricultural Departments of Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika and Zanzibar. For many years Dr. Keen was assistant director and head of the Physics Department at Rothamsted Experimental Station. During 1929–31, at the request of the Government of India, he was seconded as director of the Imperial Agricultural Research Institute to reorganise it. During 1943–45, he was scientific adviser to the Middle East Supply Centre. In 1946 he revisited Palestine to advise on the organisation needed for rural development and also went to West Africa as chairman of the United Kingdom Government Mission to inquire into the production of vegetable oils and oil seeds. Since February 1947 he has been touring East Africa at the invitation of the Governors' Conference to examine agricultural problems and research needs.
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East African Agricultural and Forestry Research: Dr. B. A. Keen, F.R.S. Nature 160, 184 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160184a0
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