Proceedings of the South & East African combined agricultural, cotton, entomological and mycological conference held at Nairobi, August, 1926

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Identifikator:: 1738588467

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-115043

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Proceedings of the South & East African combined agricultural, cotton, entomological and mycological conference held at Nairobi, August, 1926

Place of publication:: Nairobi

Publisher:: East African Standard

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: VI, 337 Seiten; Ill.

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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3 APPENDIX. Against that cost, each Government would receive copies for circulation among its officers, and an organ valuable as a reciprocal issue to other countries, from which valuable agricultural literature is supplied free, besides the value of the Journal for the promotion of the Agricultural industry in its territory. (2) ECONOMIC PROGRESS OF TANGANYIKA TERRITORY (Paper by the Director of Agriculture, Tanganyika—T.C.(C)Ag.10.) 1922 and 1923. The order of the ten chief agricultural exports of the Territory (excluding wild rubber, for obvious reasons) in relation to their actual value, was now by no means the same as that in German times. The first, sisal, retained its priority; and (speaking of 1922) had reached one-half of its former output by weight. The place of the second, plantation rubber, had been taken by coffee, which now produced the one-fifth of the value of the ten chief exports previously given by the former. The third, hides and skins, partly through the entire lack of demand caused by the great decrease of prices in the world’s markets, had descended to sixth place (ninth in 1921). Cotton, the fourth, had been maintained at the same place; and copra, likewise, remained unaltered at the fifth. The sixth, ground-nuts, had risen to the third place; and beeswax, the seventh, had descended to tenth. In 1913 coffee was as low as the eighth place instead of the second, with an export by weight almost exactly one-quarter of that in 1922. Simsim was ninth; now eighth. The tenth, ghee, like rubber, no longer appears among the first ten principal exports. In 1923 the order remained the same, except that groundnuts changed place with coffee, becoming second; and simsim rose to seventh place. Of these products, all after sisal had moved up one place through the loss of rubber; so that, with the loss of ghee, we have so far mentioned only eight of the ten of our exports of principal value at that time. The products that had now found their way into the first ten were millet (mtama), with an export weight and export value in 1922 both more than eleven: times those of 1918, the latter value having increased to more than sixty thousand pounds, bringing it to seventh place; and rice, with an export twice as great as in 1913. Before the war, 63 per cent. of the total export value of agricultural and animal produce was divided between three products only: sisal, rubber, and hides and skins, with respective percentages of 80, 17%, and 15%. By 1922, the same proportion of that value was filled by four instead of only three such products, namely, sisal, coffee, groundnuts, and cotton, with respectively 22.3, 15.7, 14.7, and 10.8 per cent.; coffee, cotton, and groundnuts having actually increased from 2.6, 6.7 and 5.3 to the above proportionate values; in 1923 the similar percentages were: sisal 22.2, groundnuts 15.9, coffee 12.4, and cotton 10.7. The result is the attainment of a safer agricultural position. Among minor agricultural products, through the unavoidable neglect of plantings, the export of kapok or silk cotton decreased from 59 tons in 1912 to 6 tons in 1921 but recovered to 30 tons in 1922. 05

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