Papers of Donald C. Pickering

District agricultural notebooks, and a briefing on agricultural development by Pickering, relating to service, 1954-1967.

Donald C. Pickering, OBE, worked in Northern Nigeria as an agronomist, 1954-1967, Acting Provincial Agricultural Officer, Zaria, 1955, Divisional Agricultural Officer, Igala, 1955-1956, Divisional Agricultural Officer, Rabba, 1956-1957, Provincial Agricultural Office, Benue Province, 1958, Divisional Agricultural Officer, Igala, 1958-1959, Provincial Agricultural Officer, Benue, 1960-1961, Acting Principal Agricultural Officer, Development, Kaduna, 1961 and Deputy Chief Agricultural Officer (Planning), Northern Nigeria, 1962-1967.

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Listed as no. 582 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996). A handlist is available for consultation in the library reading room.

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The Food and Cash Crops collection comprises material initially donated to the Oxford Development Records Project, which invited former members of the Colonial Agricultural Service to submit a memorandum dealing with their work in the development of food and cash crops after 1945 in the territories in which they served.

Other memoranda, etc. in the Food and Cash Crops collection (ref. MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 476).