Agricultural Year at Yabob Village.

Abstract

In August, 1948, the author, District Agricultural Officer at Madang, and his staff began a systematic series of observations of native agriculture at Yabob Village, near Madang. 1 he area surveyed was only a short distance from a major centre of population and the time of the survey was during the period of postwar reconstruction, so it was thought likely that methods of agriculture would have changed. However, a shorter observation made in I960, a description of which follows the main article, shows that the basic native agriculture is substantially the same. As a systematic record of native agriculture at a particular time, Mr. Vicarys account, written in 1949, is published for its general interest and to ensure that it receives a wider circulation.