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Title: | Mr Mackenzie outlines Kenya government's attitude to land |
Author: | Anonymous |
Year: | 1959 |
Periodical: | East Africa and Rhodesia |
Volume: | 36 |
Issue: | 1833 |
Pages: | 295-296 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Kenya |
Subjects: | colonial policy land |
Abstract: | This speech to the Kenya National Farmers' Union conveys three essential considerations: 1. In future the contribution of European agriculture, alone, cannot bulwark the progress of amenities and services which the country needs. 2. Some decades of financial sacrifice, made worthwile by the devoted application of officers of successive Kenya governments, have created in the African land units not only individual farmers of calibre and conviction, but a whole resvervoir of agrarian skills which the country badly needs to utilize; 3. No government could venture now to initiate anything but one criterion for Kenya's economic development: proper use of the resources in terms of land, coupled with the other few natural bounties. Government must secure the greatest possible contribution from agricultural endeavour to the profit of national economic needs. This will only be possible by the removal of purely artificial restrictions on the use of land. |