مجموعة ١/٥٤(س) "لجنة الشرق الأوسط (الرسمية): إعادة الإعمار" [و‎‎٣‎٠‎١] (٩٤٠/٦٠٥)

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X.rt the beglrming of J&ouary X corepieted ray
examination of the Persian in its relation to
agricultural development and embodied my views and
^ suggestions in a note which was sent to cur Embassy in
Tehran for transmission to the Persian Government* I also
prepared, for our own information and future-use, a series
of miscellaneous notea on agricultural conditions and
organisation in Persia* as escertatned during a tour which
I made in north and central Persia, this completed the
series of notes and reports resulting from my visit to
Persia In October - December and my contacts with the
Central Planning Board and the Overseas Consultants Inc.
2 0 As intimation was daily expected that I
should proceed again to Persia in connection with Phase II
of the 7-Year Plan, no arrangements could be made to visit
any other countries, but as the days passed and no call
was' received 1 made all preparations for proceeding to the
Sudan In the last week of January, in order to visit
Equatori& u This visit had to be cancelled, however, 48
hours before I was due to leave for Khartoum, on receipt
of intimation from Tehran that it was important that I
should reach the latter place almost immediately. Bookings
were made accordingly. That tour also had to be cancelled
two days later following the receipt of another message
from Tehran that X would not now he required there till later.
By this time it was impossible to carry through my original
intention of visiting iSqn&tcris, a;? the Director of
Agriculture and Forests and others ^hom I was to have
accompanied had already gone, and,the area to be visited
was too inaccessible to permit of making fresh travelling
a r range me nt s quic kly.
3„ Arrangements were then made to visit Cyprus
but these had to be cancelled following the receipt of
urgent telephonic and telegraphic requests from the Sudan
that I should proceed there immediately in order to advise
on abnormal conditions which had appeared in the Gesirs
cotton crop and which, it was thought, might resemble a
disastrous condition known as *tirak 4 with which I was
familiar in the Punjab, during my service in India. I
proceeded at once to Khartoum and spent a week in February
In a thorough examination of the Goairs cotton crop, In
company with senior officials of the Sudan Plantations
Syndicate and of the Department of Agriculture end Forests,
Subsequently on ray return to Cairo I prepared and sent to
the Sudan Government a report embodying my obver sat ions and
views. Appreciation of this report end of ray visit was
exoressed In mors than one letter which I received later.
4. Efforts to arrange for an immediate visit
to the Sudan of Professor R.H. Paster, from India, a plant
physiologist who has specialised ’In* “Punjab tirak% failed
owing to delay on the part of the Government of India in
sanctioning his deputation, till the cotton season became
too far advanced. It is hoped to arrange in good time for
him to go to the Sudan next year, at a date when conditions
are optimum for his study of the problem..