These reports cover both staffing levels and the types of surveys conducted in Gambia. The significance of having completed surveys, with regard to planning the development of Gambia, is also...

Date:1946-1954
Contributor:British Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Identifier:73044D-07
20th Century Reports Modern History Typescript 1940s 1950s Statistics Land Survey

The veterinary work in Gambia was focussed upon the prevention of disease and the demonstration of how husbandry could be improved, in order to ensure that the increased heard sizes...

Date:1947-1955
Contributor:British Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Identifier:73044D-06
20th Century Reports Modern History Typescript 1940s 1950s Agriculture Diseases Farming Electricity

C.F. Hickling, Fisheries Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies on his visit to the Gambia in November 1950, (SP9/51). This report outlines Hickling's experiences of fishing in...

Date:1950-1950
Contributor:British Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Identifier:73044D-05
20th Century Reports Modern History Typescript 1950s Agriculture Fishing

The post of Forestry Advisor was created in 1950 in order to increase the quantity of forests in locations of use to the colonial authorities. The Advisor then had to...

Date:1950-1950
Contributor:British Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Identifier:73044D-04
20th Century Reports Modern History Typescript 1950s Agriculture Forest Advisory Forests

These reports include details of experiments in relation to the growth of rice under various circumstances and with regard to different varieties.

Date:1953-1953
Contributor:British Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Identifier:73044D-03
20th Century Reports Modern History Typescript 1950s Agriculture

The main crop of Gambia was groundnuts and for this reason the propagation of groundnuts dominates these reports. The difficulty of explaining the shifts of western markets to groundnut farmers...

Date:1923-1923
Contributor:British Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Identifier:73044D-02
20th Century Reports Modern History Typescript 1940s 1950s 1920s 1930s Agriculture

Predominantly consists of correspondence on the failure of the attempt to establish a botanic station, on unsuitable land, in order to educate the native population in farming techniques. Includes copies...

Date:1894-1901
Contributor:British Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Identifier:73044D-01
19th Century 20th Century Modern History Correspondence Typescript 1900s 1890s Botanic Station Agriculture Farming