FUTURE OF AGRICULTURE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 201, 26 July 1937, Page 2

FUTURE OF AGRICULTURE.

GREAT CHANGES FORESEEN. NEED FOR STUDENT TRAINING. CHRISTCHURCH, July 23. Forecasting some very big changes in agriculture. Professor E. R. Hudson, director of Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln, in an address to members of the Christchurch Rotary Club, emphasised the inadequate attention paid to the professional training of agriculture students, and urged strongly that assistance. . should he given to primary industries in the Dominion by a greater concentration on this training. There was every reason to believe that in the future there would lie a greater need of technical guidance in rural industries. Professor Hudson said. The need for not only technical but economic guidance, too, would be greater than ever in the past. AgnculHire in the Dominion had been carryi'ng on for almost a century, and speaking broadly, the pioneer stage was passing rapidly, and agriculture was becoming an increasingly complete study.

Considering the work here and the work in other countries it could he said that agriculture was now on the threshold of big changes and if the peonle of New Zealand were going to make the best of their opportunities they would have to appreciate the increasing need for the sound professional training of students and to understand that the work of agricultural colleges and kindred institutions and of the Departments of Agriculture and of Scientific and Industrial Research was of increasing importance and would play a far greater part than ever in the past.- , ,