This report gives a broad view of the current situation in agricultural production and the prospects for the 1960's. In this report, primary emphasis is on production prospects and programs; available information on the demand phase of the farm problem has been marshaled as a general background against which to examine production changes and prospects.

Briefly discusses the role of Ghana's Forestry Division in the planned land use of the savanna regions, under the heads: firewood and poles; timber; trees for agricultural purposes; trees in watershed management; national parks; game reserves (proposing management of bush meat production on a sustained-yield basis).

This bibliography lists production and marketing research papers on tree nuts published between 1945 and 1960. The main source used in compiling this list was the Bibliography of Agriculture. In addition, the State agricultural experiment stations in the pecan producing States furnished listings of their publications. | The bibliography has a section for each of the four major domestic tree nuts: pecans, walnuts, almonds, and filberts.

Groenveld attempted to show the magnitude of investments in agriculture, which were necessary to meet the increasing world demand for food. The formula S = K/Y (ΔN +ΔH) was assumed as a description that for a community the proportion of national income saved and invested must equal the product of proportional increase in population plus increase in income per head, and of the capital coefficient. Thus ensued the problem of allocating investments in agriculture and other sectors of the economy. In private investment decisions involved many people. For public investment decisions were usually central. But public complemented private investment. The figures for future demand for food were based on population size and estimated population growth, income per head and expected increase of it and income elasticity of food costs. Changes in supply through rise in production from an increase in productivity were distinguished from changes through enlargement of agricultural area. Extrapolation of production from the period 1950-60 until the year 1980 showed that investments in Asia (other than China and the Soviet Union), Africa and Latin America should be about 10% higher to keep pace with demand for agricultural products. Groenveld believed the solution could be to raise public investment, which he then estimated to be about the same size as the private investments.