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Martinique, have lost much of their old importance; 

 others, notably Trinidad and Venezuela, have retained 

 a firm hold on the world's markets although they have 

 been beaten, as regards quantity of output, by new- 

 comers. Besides continuing to rank as big exporters, 

 Venezuela and Ecuador still have the honour of pro- 

 ducing some of the finest quality cocoa in the world. 



Among the newer producing countries, the Gold 

 Coast, with its Dependency of Ashanti, Brazil, San 

 Thome, and San Domingo, are famous for a phenomenal 

 increase of production during the last quarter of a 

 century, and the Gold Coast with Ashanti is at the top 

 of this tree of fame. 



As indicative of the relative positions of the cocoa - 

 producing countries, here are the 1916 statistics. In 

 studying them, remember it is estimated, by reliable 

 authorities, that the increase of production in the 

 Gold Coast and Ashanti since 1916 has brought the 

 British Empire's total cocoa exports up to a figure 

 which exceeds the total exports from foreign countries. 



BRITISH EMPIRE: PRODUCTION OF RAW COCOA, 1916. 



Cwts. 



Gold Coast 1,443,236 



British West Indies: 



Trinidad .. 479,393 



Grenada .. 109,772 



Jamaica . . 64,360 



St. Lucia . . 14,575 



Dominica 5,514 



St. Vincent 1,596 



Montserrat 49 



Nigeria .. 179,121 



Ceylon . . 73,245 



British Guiana 416 



Uganda . . 258 



British Honduras 164 



Fiji 21 



Total, British Empire . . 2,371,720 



