PART 11. ; 
from a European interested in the industry. The very rapid develop- 
ment of this industry was cause for concern for several reasons, 
Firstly, the reputation of Nyasaland tobacco might be jeopardised, 
secondly the natives might neglect their food crops, and thirdly, 
deforestation was rapidly being brought about in order to provide 
fuel for the curing of tobacco. Theft of European grown tobacco had 
increased since there had been a ready ‘market for native tobacco, and 
there was a menace of a shortage of labour for European estates. 
Government had recently introduced a tobacco Ordinance and, to 
control the industry, a Tobacco Board had been appointed to assist 
and supervise the native tobacco industry. The Ordinance provided 
that no one might buy native grown tobacco without a licence and 
buyers were restricted to certain premises. All natives who wished 
to grow tobacco were compelled to register but no charge was made 
for registration. Active measures were being taken by the Tobacco 
Board to ensure supervision of growing, harvesting, curing and 
grading. 
Mr. SIMPSON thanked the Nyasaland Director of Agriculture 
for the information he had given. 
Mr. KOCH stated that in the Union of South Africa the natives 
were not well organised for growing tobacco, they produced large 
quantities of a rank raw material which did not find its way into the 
European market.  Hottentots and others grew tobacco of fair 
quality in the Eastern Province. In the Transvaal very little was 
grown by natives. What was produced in many districts had to be 
soid through co-operative societies. In the native areas tobacco 
growing was not under control except where native schools were 
functioning as in the Transkei. 
Continuing, Mr. Koch made the following statement on the 
production of tobacco in the Union of South Africa : 
Until about three decades ago the majority of the tobacco growers 
in South Africa utilised all their tobacco for roll manufacture on 
the farms by first subjecting it to a process of fermentation. This 
so-called Boer tobacco was used for smoking, chewing, and for snuff 
puroses. At present the term Boer tobacco means the South African 
Virginian type of leaf grown and manufactured in this country as 
pipe tobacco. In cigarette tobaccos there are two distinct popular 
types, that made from purely Virginian leaf (locally grown and a 
small percentage imported) and that made from South African 
Turkish leaf in a blended form. 
As the aroma, character, and quality of tobacco leaf are almost 
entirely dependent on the soil and climatic conditions under wh'eh it 
> Modused, striking differences in the type of leaf are obtained irom 
the different localities. These localities are the Magaliesh:re areas 
{ hustenburg, Marico, Pretoria, Waterberg, and Krugersdsrp disrriets:, 
the Vaal River areas (Vredefort and Potchefstroom), the Piet Retief 
and the Barberton areas, the Katriver and Oudtshoorn areas and the 
Turkish tobacco area, namely the Western Province. 
In the Turkish tobacco areas the crop is grown under natural 
precipitation which falls in winter with scarcely any rainfall in 
Summer, ahs her areas the tobacco crops are raised under 
a pending summer rains and supplemented by irrigation 
yY, or grown almost entirely under irrigation. 
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