In growing fruits or vegetables for canning or bottling a man is independent of market fluctuations, whereas at present both producers and consumers are in the hands of the local shopkeepers, who have the former entirely at their mercy.
The Egyptian fruit and vegetable trade is very well worth cultivating, but until better measures can be enforced in the matter of transport by sea as well as land, shippers run the risk of heavy losses, which, no doubt, recoil upon the unlucky producers.
Specimens of most of the products referred to in these notes may be seen in the Cyprus Court in the Public Exhibition Galleries of the Imperial Institute.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Reprinted from the Bulletin of the Imperial Institute, 1919.
[2] Report by Captain Goodchild, Remount Department, E.E.F., when visiting Cyprus in 1916 and 1917 to purchase mules and donkeys for army purposes.
[3] Legislation in this direction has been effected during the session of the Legislative Council just ended. (Law No. VII of 1919.)
[4] A quantity of stored plant was destroyed by fire, reducing the output.