Review of Agriculture March 1969 to meet the management needs of the new materials. Foremost among these is fertiliser. Without nutrient supplies there is no possibility for the farmer to innovate, and there will be no return on the public investment in rice research. The crucial need is for supplies of adequate quantities of the correct formulations to be available when needed at a market convenient to the cultivator. A combination of circumstances that still seems to elude the power of administration to effect.