oo DOB ARCHIVES 17 The agricultural practices of the resettled islanders will probably be the same as in the past. intensive type of agriculture. Coconuts, That is, a nonarrowroot, pandanus, and wnatever breadfruit that can be grown will be grown, The resettlement program will, of course, give tne Marshall Islands District Agriculture Department an excellent opportunity to plan for the most efficient use of the land in the atoll. Improved varieties of food-producing plants can be introduced and planted in the most efficient manner. coconut groves, production. training especially, The can be planted to insure maximum This will be a valuabie project in terms of the local people and scientific experimentation in atoll] agriculture. I believe that the Bikini people have become more oriented toward a cash economy since tneir removal from tne atoll. This is especially true of tnose wio have had to cope witn the casn economy prevalent at Majuro and Ebeye. This means that tney will probably be very much interested in copra production and will want to maximize the yicla throughout the atoll. While this will aid in the rehabilitation program and the eventual economic Btability of Bikini, neglected. Mr. subsistence agriculture should not be Hiyane is, of course, well aware of this aspect of the problem of agricultural rehabilitation. As I have indicated previously, the Bikini people can be expected to make the maximum use of the local marine resources. Birds and turtles, and their eggs, fish and snellfisn, and ail