HC Deb 15 July 1953 vol 517 c2031
5. Mr. Braine

asked 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. Lyttelton

This 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. Braine

Having 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. Lyttelton

The 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.