APPENDIX.
1925.
The unfavourable season for annual crops brought about a rearrangement
 for the first four exports in that groundnuts was ousted
from the group, being replaced as third by coffee, whilst hides and
skins entered as fourth, in the place of the last-named, having risen
from fifth and resumed its position of German times; in good seasons,
however, groundnuts are likely always to be found in this group.
The particularly encouraging circumstance, however, is the maintenance
 of its position (second) by cotton, in spite of its handicap of a
bad season; and this is one of the strongest indications of the general
suitability of the Territory to cotton-growing. After groundnuts, fifth
and in the place of hides and skins, copra suffered a slight decline from
its steady position; whilst rice and simsim, which notwithstanding the
greatly varying conditions of season and external demand from year
to year, maintain an export remarkable for its steadiness, did not
move. Millet (although its export depends largely on the demand in
Northern Africa and India) showed its susceptibility to unfavourable
growing conditions by giving less than one-half of its export of 1924;
and this, coupled with the sudden and unexpected rise in shipments
of plantation rubber, caused its disappearance from among the first ten
agricultural exports. On the other hand, the entrance of plantation
rubber, virtually all Ceara, into this group (having multiplied its export
value by 16 since the previous year) will not be maintained if prices
continue to fall, although the discovery that this rubber has usefulness
for special purposes may increase permanently its importance in the
Territory. Other products that have moved above millet are ghee and
cotton seed, these having undergone a significantly increased production,
 the former, owing to the greater demand and higher prices for a
produrt improved by the efforts of the Veterinary Department, and the
latter because of the stronger world’s market. The last of the ten,
beeswax (at present rather a forest than an agricultural product) with
a lower export maintained its position in consequence of higher prices.
Although they changed in that groundnuts disappeared from among
them, coffee moving from fourth to third, and hides and skins coming
up among them from fifth to fourth (as already mentioned), the first
four export products in 1925 remained at about 63 per cent. of the
total value, actually 65 per cent. Since the previous year, 1924,
sisal and groundnuts have decreased from 24.7 to 22.9 and 13.8 to 5.9,
respectively; whilst all the others increased as follows: Cotton 14.8 to
18, coffee 13.5 to 16. hides and skins 7.1 to 8.0.
Of minor agricultural products, kapok has maintained its increase
to 86 tons, worth £4,900; whilst chillies, after their quickly developed
output, suffered a reduction in their quantity and value to about oneeighth
 of those of the former year, namely, 2,474 cwts. and £2,610,
the cause being the unpopularity of the crop, and the increased
attention through higher prices to coffee in the chief area of their
production. Bukoba.
The chief mineral products, gold and mica, maintained their
changed relative position of 1924, exports being respectively 10,614 oz.
troy, value £42,506 (similar to that of beeswax) and 52 tons (a
decrease) worth about as much as the shipments of cotton seed,
actually £31,532. The other principal non-agricultural export, ivory
(738 cwts.) was worth about as much as the seventh agricultural
export in value, simsim, at £71,094.

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