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The exports in 1906-10 were as follows : 



Kilog. 



1906 . . . 472,900 



1907 . . . 502,800 



1908 . 529,900 



Kilog. 



1909 . . . 592,900 



1910 . . . 592,800 



French Congo 1 



Cocoa is only cultivated to a small extent in the 

 French Congo. Since 1889 attempts have been made, 

 with more or less success, to establish cocoa plantations. 

 At the present time there are thirty-eight of them, 

 mostly situated along the borders of the Gaboon and its 

 affluents. 



The first exports were made in 1896, and since they 

 have increased regularly, but slowly. In 1909, 103,358 

 kilograms were exported, in 1910 about 120,000 kilo- 

 grams. 



Madagascar 2 



Cocoa is cultivated in Madagascar to a very small 

 extent, and in a primitive way. It is worth mentioning 

 that the variety cultivated is a pure Criollo, Mada- 

 gascar Criollo (see Chapter V. ). The exports amounted 

 in 1909 to 22,967 kilograms, in 1910 to 28,000 kilo- 

 grams. 



French Guiana, Mayotte, Ivory Coast, Dahomey, 

 Reunion, New Caledonia 



These colonies possess very little importance as 

 cocoa producers. The several amounts exported in 

 the years 1909 and 1910 were as follows : 



1 Chalot and Luc, Le Cacaoyer au Congo francais (1906) ; Chevalier, Le 

 Cacaoyer dans I' Quest africain (1908), p. 213. 



2 Fauchere, Culture pratique, etc., p. 159. 



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