II. Land Types and their uses in Papua and New Guinea

Abstract

We are introducing here a very wide subject and one about which it is never possible to be dogmatic. It is a subject, however, which would well repay careful attention both by established planters and farmers and by people intending to settle on the land in the Territory. In a previous broadcast on agricultural development, we pointed out that the Territory with its many islands, its towering mountain ranges and its great river systems, provides an extremely wide range of environments and accordingly diverse opportunities for agricultural and pastoral development.