QUESTION TIME

Although drought was a serious negative factor for anyone seriously contemplating farming in the 1960s and 1970s, there were other factors that had their own influence on the decisions of young learners about their futures.

To some extent, the policies of the Protectorate Administration in the 1960s, and later were aimed at securing successful school leavers into being officials of first, the Department of Agriculture, and after independence, of the Ministry. Agricultural demonstrators represented the lower ranks of the Department and later the Ministry, and did not necessary need "O" levels.