§ 5. Mr. Braineasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will give details of those rice development schemes for which an additional £3 million has now been made available.
§ Mr. LytteltonThis money is intended for preliminary investigations and pilot schemes which will provide the information on which large-scale development can be based. Colonial Governments have put forward several promising proposals, and three schemes have already been approved.
§ Mr. BraineHaving regard to the interest which my right hon. Friend's answer will arouse in the rice eating territories, can he say which are the three schemes already approved?
§ Mr. LytteltonThe scheme in Tanganyika in the Rufigi Valley and the one in Zanzibar, these are already authorised, and one in Malaya of 180,000 acres in the Trans-Perak area.