During the period under review arrangements were being completed for the fourth session of the West Indian Conference, which was to be held in Curasao, Netherlands West Indies from November 27 to December 10, 1950. Prominent in the provisional agenda, which was circulated to all interested parties prior to the conference was the topic of agricultural problems of the Caribbean. This agenda topic had been decided upon by the third session of the conference and was in conformity with its recommendations as well as those of the Caribbean Research Council and its research committees. Under this topic representatives would discuss the importance of agriculture in Caribbean economy, with reference to the world market; farm management; soil conservation and fertility; water control; animal husbandry; types of farming; rural welfare; land tenure and settlement; rural housing, including potable water supply; extension services; general rural education; marketing problems; and agricultural credit, labor, mechanization and research.