THE CULTIVATION OF TOBACCO IN THE 

 VORSTENLANDEN OF JAVA. 



By DR. H. JENSEN. 



THE area under tobacco in the Vorstenlanden is small; 

 in the year 1913 it amounted to only about 10,000 

 hectares. As the estates only grow tobacco annually on 

 two-fifths of their grounds on the remaining three-fifths 

 rice or other native crops are cultivated the total area 

 of the tobacco estates in the Vorstenlanden amounts to 

 about 25,000 hectares, or rather less than the area 

 covered by London. 



In the course of the five years 1907-1911 the exports 

 from the Vorstenlanden to Europe amounted to : 



In 1907 ... 9,285,040 kilograms of a value of 10,213,544 florins 



In 1908 ... 9,255,120 ,, ,, 9,023,742 



In 1909 ... 8,406,000 ,, ,, 8,321,940 ,, 



In 1910 ... 7,643,76o ,, 7,643,760 



In 1911 ... 13,125,680 ,, ,, 12,600,652 ,, 



47,715,600 47,803,638 



This large yield was obtained, as mentioned above, 

 from an area of about 10,000 hectares, or about 1,000 

 kilograms per hectare annually. The yields from the 

 different estates vary. The largest average yield of one 

 estate during the above quinquennial period was 1,655 

 kilograms per hectare. The smallest yield of another 

 estate, being the average of the same quinquennial 

 period, was 583 kilograms per hectare. A single estate 

 once produced about 2,800 kilograms per hectare, a truly 

 enormous production compared with other tobacco- 

 producing countries. 



These high crop figures are still more striking when 

 it is considered that such a crop is taken out of the ground 

 every two years, and very different from Deli (Sumatra), 

 which produces the finest wrapper leaf of the whole 



