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SINCE the Second World War, attention has been increasingly focused on the international aspect of agricultural poblems, and the appearance of a new monthly journal, World Crops, published by Leonard Ltd., under the editorship of Sir Harold Tem-pany, is appropriate. The scope of the journal is wide, embracing the cultivation, protection, storage and handling of many essential crops, and their processing for food, fodder and industrial products. Its purpose is to describe, in not too technical language, the results of research, and to discuss such current topics and problems as will interest both the grower and manufacturer as well as the administrator and scientific worker. Among the outstanding world agricultural problems of to-day is the necessity for increasing the production of rice and vegetable oils and to find means for controlling the disease that threatens the cocoa industry. Authoritative articles dealing with these subjects appear in the first number, issued in September 1949. The prospects for the extension of tobacco production in East and Central Africa are also discussed, and an account is given of the project of the British Overseas Corporation for the growing of sorghum and the setting up of piggeries in Queensland, Australia. Items of general interest include an article on agricultural education and reports of recent important conferences and meetings. Good illustrations are evidently intended to be a feature of the new journal ; the subscription rates are, one year 25s., two years 40s., and three years 50s.
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World Crops: A New Monthly Journal. Nature 164, 690 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164690c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/164690c0