Seed Production Vegetables and Root Crops

Among the numerous readjustments that have had to be made since 1939 in agriculture production in countries outside Europe, those concerned with the supply and distributing of seeds of agriculture and horticulture plants demand an important place. Isolation from the former seed producing countries of Central Europe and the great risk affecting the transport of consignments of seed across the seas from one country to another have led to the attempt to achieve self sufficiency in seed supplies in all countries where production is at all possible. This development is probably more marked with respect to seeds of root crops and vegetables than with any other seed. New areas have had to be located which are best suited to this type of production, new techniques have had to be studied and passed on to the cultivator, and attention has had to be given to the distribution and marketing of the final product. (jacket)