Products and Resources of Nyasaland 



Tobacco* Tobacco is being grown success- 

 fully, and the quality is improving. The Imperial 

 Tobacco Co. have a factory at Limbe, near 

 Blantyre, which has stimulated the industry. 

 According to the report, "the only complaint the 

 Imperial Tobacco Co. have against the Protectorate 

 is shortage of supply." Local prices range from 

 2d. to 8d. a lb., and samples sent home have been 

 commended and valued by merchants at from 6d. 

 to gd a lb. Tobacco requires considerable skill and 

 attention, more so than any other crop in Nyasa- 

 land ; so, unless it fetches a price above 4d. a lb. 

 the grower gets little benefit, on account of the 

 long distance the product must travel before being 

 shipped. In 1905 fifty-six thousand seven hundred 

 and twenty-six pounds were exported. This has 

 increased yearly. In 1908-09 over five hundred 

 thousand pounds left the country, the amount being 

 valued at ,14,253. 



Rubber, Rubber promises to be of some 

 importance in Nyasaland, and within the next 

 few years there should be a considerable export 

 of the cultivated article. In 1908-09 over a 

 thousand acres were planted, and more than three 

 thousand five hundred are now under cultivation. 



The Director of Agriculture in his report says : 

 " Three ounces dry rubber per tree will be a good 

 average yield for trees over four years old in 

 Nyasaland, and I should not advise anyone to 

 base his calculations on a higher return." He 

 does not recommend planters to go in for Ceara 

 on a large scale, for no data as to the life of the 



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