Download or read book The Agricultural and Forest Products of British West Africa (Classic Reprint) written by Gerald C. Dudgeon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Agricultural and Forest Products of British West Africa Since the first edition of this book appeared, British West Africa has experienced a serious set-back in its development through the occurrence of the Great European War. From that war, however, many lessons will have been learnt, which will, it is hoped, make the course of progress in the future more sure and perhaps more rapid. The cultivation of cotton has now been shown to be successful and profitable in Nigeria. In the Northern Provinces great progress has been made in perfecting a cotton originally grown from American Upland seed, whilst the Southern Provinces have produced in creasing quantities of an improved native cotton of the type of Middling American. The future of cotton production in Nigeria is now assured, and its further development chiefly depends on effective action being taken on commercial lines. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.