Rice, sugar, cocoa, and bananas, 1930-1947

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Also, two unfoliated items.

Comprises:

(item 1) Empire Marketing Board Publication E.M.B. 32: Report by Charles E. Douglas on the Cultivation, Treatment, and Prospects of Rice in British Guiana, Aug 1930
(item 2 and fol. 1) 'An Economic Survey of Rice-Farming in West Demerara' by Huggins (article reprinted from Tropical Agriculture, Vol. XVIII No. 2) containing a list: cost of production of padi per acre, 1941
(fols. 2-9) report on the Operations of the Mahaicony-Abary Rice Development Scheme, by H. Gadd, General Superintendent; auditor's certificate; balance sheet; table showing capital expenditure. Also, a cyclostyled copy of the first three items, signed and circulated by the Chairman, Croucher; and a related memorandum, 30 Jul 1947
(fols. 10-13) Telegraphic correspondence between the Secretary of State for the Colonies and the Governor about rice production in British Guiana (Guyana) and prospects of expansion, with related statistical tables (copies by Greenidge), Sep-Dec 1947
(fol. 14) letter from [L.S.] Birkett, supplying information requested by Greenidge about the present and future capacity of Blairmont Sugar Factory, and giving his views on the economic viability of peasant cultivation, 26 Sep 1947
(fol. 15) notes by Greenidge on articles by J.G. Myers on 'Wild Cocoa and Wild Bananas in Surinam and British Guiana' in Bull. Misc. Information, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, No. 1, 1930, and in Tropical Agriculture, Vol. XI No. 10, 1930; 1934.