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COCOA-GROWING COUNTRIES 307 



The increase in the export of " Bahia " is, however, 

 not the result of systematic and persistent efforts on 

 the part of planters who have had to surmount great 

 difficulties. It is more the consequence of a combina- 

 tion of remarkably favourable circumstances, which in 

 this much-favoured country make cocoa-growing possible 

 and even successful in spite of the absence of any great 

 care. Indeed, the natural conditions in those parts of 

 Brazil 1 where cocoa is cultivated are perhaps more 

 favourable than those of Ecuador, and accordingly the 

 cultivation is still more primitive. These natural con- 

 ditions would result in a still greater extension of the 

 cocoa industry if the economic conditions were better 

 and if the States in question were governed in a more 

 sympathetic manner. 



In Para the districts of Cameta, d'Obidos, and 

 Tocantins are the most important cocoa-growing centres. 



1 Jumelle, Le Cacaoyer ; Gordian (1910 and 1911) ; Le Brtsil, ses richesses 

 naturelles, ses industries (public par le Centre Industrie! du Bresil). 



