Title : Royal Commission on Agriculture in India - Reserve Bank of ...

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58008. Yes, and in the Province generally?'-Yes, I think I am, on the
whole. I have made a point in my note which I do not know whether you
have noticed, and that is as to the question of the personality of officers.
58900. Yes, I noticed that?-To that I attach -ilie greatest importance. I
hlLve known officers who have been most erudite in research and keen on their
profession who have been no use at all in going out and instilliqg these ideas
into the minds of the people. I have in mind one officer \Vh. used to be
Director of Agriculture in the Bombay Presidency who was a bbrn agriculturist,
a farmer by profession and a fanner by birth; that officer used to get into the
closest touch with the cultivators, which I do not think is the case when we
attlLch too much importance to the aClLdemic side of an officer's qualifications.
58910. Do you think that full use is being made of the silt in the Indus
from tbe agricultural point oJ view?-Yes; but so far as the old blLd canals
are concerned a grelLt deal of it has beell dropped on the ",ay.
58911. Will your canals can'y it strlLight on to the fields ?-Yes, we want
nothing to drop in the canals other than silt in the berms; after that, everything
is to go on the land, and we have to calcullLte our velocity of W:lter to
give that effect; the silt must l!0 on the land.
58912. That should be IL very valuable contribution to the fertility of the
Province?-Yes, extremely.
Mr. C. B. C. Harrison.
(The witness withdrew.)