ABSTRACT
The Carnegie Trust made a grant early in the year for the specific purpose of the appointment of a Marketing Officer for native produce. Mr. C. O. Oates, Agricultural Officer in Kenya, was appointed to the post, which is a purely temporary one, his place being taken by a local appointment. Previous to the introduction of compulsory central inspection, this service consisted only in occasional itinerant inspection for the enforcement of the rules prohibiting the purchase or sale of wet, mouldy or adulterated produce, specified. The progress was slow and the reward was inadequate, for the native received no higher price for well sorted produce than for mixed produce. All potatoes brought to the inspection centre are sorted mechanically into the export grades. Maize is put through a sorter and cleaner, and if the parcel shows an excessive percentage of discoloured grains the native is made to pick these out before re-submission for inspection.
