RAWALPINDI: President Ayub Khan said today [June 1] that Pakistan can take full advantage of its conditions and resources and undertake intensive cultivation of land `if we consolidate our small and fragmented holdings of land for full proper use of new methods of cultivation and of modern implements and machinery`.

In his first-of-the-month broadcast, the President said, it is necessary to devise some ways of pooling the small land-holdings and of bringing their owners together so that they are in a position to use agricultural machines.

The president referred to the demonstration of harvesting he saw last month along with the MNAs, by mechanical combines. On that occasion, he had said that for a large-scale increase in food production the use of agricultural machines was unavoidable and that these machines could not be used on small holdings of land. The President said that the land owners, cultivators, agricultural experts, and public representatives should give careful consideration to this problem. This, he said, is an economic and scientific problem and it should be tackled on the same basis. The President, however, said that the time had come for us to consider seriously how and to what extent machines could help our existing agricultural system.Agencies