Excerpt from Control of Production of Agricultural Products by Governments: A Selected Bibliography An account of the efforts of the Egyptian government from 1914 to 1926 to keep up the price of cotton by means of the purchase and holding of raw cotton and the restriction of acreage planted. Brit. Department of overseas trade. Report on the economic and financial situation of Egypt, April, 1923. London, H. M. Stationery office, 1923. 56p. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The legitimate roles of government in agriculture--especially investment and research--have often been subordinated to roles for which government has shown little competence, such as price setting and intervention in markets. These priorities must be reversed.