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IN the excellent review of Mr. Howard's “Crop-Production in India” (NATURE, July 4, p. 4) a rather important mis-statement occurs in respect to legislation, for the introduction of which my Committee was largely responsible. May I explain at once that there is no law in British India prohibiting the sowing of any variety of cotton. The reference is obviously to the Indian Cotton Transport Act of 1923, which enables a provincial Government, with the consent of the local legislature, to notify for protection any specified cotton-growing zone. A notification under the Act forbids the importation of cotton, cotton-seed, or seed-cotton into a protected area except under licence. The object of such prohibition is to prevent:
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BURT, B. Crop-Production in India. Nature 116, 431 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116431c0
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