The purpose of this evaluation is to determine the land suitability of the Wadi Mawr area for the cultivation of (spate) irrigated sorghum under improved traditional management, and to determine the yield response to additional water gifts on various soil types. The evaluation was carried out for the alluvial plain, i.e.

Research in the various agricultural experiment stations in Ethiopia has convincingly shown that the wheat variety is in many respects inferior to imported varieties (lower yield, weaker stems, more susceptible to rust, short stalks, small heads etc.) and required to be replaced for upgraded.

A la cinquième réunion Conférence régionale de la FAO pour l'Afrique, tenue à Kampala, Ouganda, en novembre 1968, la FAO a présenté un document intitulé "Institutions rurales: développement intégré en vue d'assurer à l'agriculture l'appui des services officiels." Ce document a suscité un intérêt considérable et donné lieu à de nombreux échanges de vue entre les délégués.

Ce rapport parle à propos des propositions relatives à la planification agricole interrégional en Afrique.

Planificateur et ministres ont la délicate d'établir un ordre de priorités en comparant l’importance respective des objectifs et établissent entre eux un équilibre.

Another basic feature of agricultural planning is the Organization of an agricultural statistical service with the help of the local authorities. Thus it is necessary to organize not only the collection of statistical data regarding crops, but also to make periodical inventories of the types of soil available, the crops for which they can be used, of water and meteorological data, of data on products, income, employment, coefficients of capital, labour productivity, price indices, income and price elasticities of demand, costs, internal and external markets.

This paper focuses on the the main purpose of the seminar that was; To determine what is known of the economics of modern technical inputs in African agriculture in terms of the physical and value responses to expenditures on them; To identify those areas in which information vital to policy is lacking; To propose a specific programme for obtaining required data through the co-operation of research institutions.

Il semble, d' après des estimations préliminaires, que la production agricole du continent africain qui avait augmente d’environ 7 pour 100 en 1962/63 (mais il s’agissait en grande partie d'un redressement, car elle avait baisse l'année précédente), se soit accrue de noms de un pour 100 en 1963/64. Pour la campagne 1964/65, les chiffres sont encore très limites, mais il semble probable qu'elle aura un peu diminue dans le nord-ouest de l’Afrique.

Africa is a considerable net exporter of agricultural products and in 1963 the volume of its gross imports amounted only .to about a quarter of its gross exports. Since 1957 the continent's net exports have been subjected to a constant and fairly rapid increase. In 1963 the rise in net was smaller than in earlier years as gross exports increased only a little However, contrary to the past trend, the growth rate of net exports in 1963 was much higher than that of gross exports because of the reduction in agricultural imports.

The FAO/ECA Expert Meeting on Government Measures to Promote the Transition from Subsistence to Market Agriculture in Africa was held at Addis Ababa from 27 April to 7 May 1964. The attached paper summarizing the main findings and recommendations of the meeting was prepared as a working document for the Third FAO Regional Conference for Africa, held at Addis Ababa from 3 to 15 September 1964.

Dans le document E/C.14/278, la Commission économique pour l'Afrique

fait utilement le point de la situation. La Commission économique pour l'Afrique pourrait utilement faire une étude comparée des expériences originales faites en Afrique.

The paper focuses on provisional summary record of the sixteenth Meeting.