54 MOZAMBIQUE 



The opening of four more estates is projected — 

 one in the Movene Valley, one on the Incomati, 

 one on the Zambezi, and one on the Chire. The 

 work of preparation has begun on the Movene 

 estate and on the Incomati, and the site has 

 been selected for a new factory at Kowesha, on 

 the left bank of the Zambezi, below Marromeu. 

 The Incomati and Kowesha factories are each to 

 have a capacity of 20,000 tons, that of Movene 

 more. These circumstances, and the increased 

 activity existing factories are now showing, make 

 it probable that by the year 1914 the present 

 output will be at least doubled. 



The total number of native labourers employed 

 in growing and manufacturing the sugar is approxi- 

 mately 11,000 men during crop time and a little 

 more than half that number during off-crop time. 

 Crop time is from May to December. The out- 

 put of sugar per man employed is as follows: — 



Inhambane ... ... ... 3 tons per man. 



Inhanguvo ... ... ... 3 ,, 



Lusitania 2-8 ,, 



Zambezi 24 ,, 



These are low figures. In Natal, where steam- 

 ploughing is often impossible owing to the hilly 

 nature of the country, and cultivation is all done 

 by hand labour, the output of sugar is 4 tons 



