French colonial scientific missions inventoried African flora but delayed institutional agricultural development

Evidence

Roume put the botanist Auguste Chevalier in charge of a permanent scientific mission in West Africa from 1905 to 1913. Chevalier inventoried the federation’s flora, especially in the rain forest. No agricultural services, however, were established in the individual colonies until after the war. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 971