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SUGAR CANE has been cultivated with success, in many parts 

 of Angola, and there are several modern sugar mills. The exports 

 of sugar to Portugal average 10,000 tons per annum. The yield 

 per hectare, is, in some places, abnormally high. Power alcohol 

 is being manufactured in two factories already. 



RUBBER has declined so much that it plays no important part 

 in the trade of this country. There are no European rubber 

 plantations. 



OIL SEEDS are very abundant, but the exports are dependent 

 on the cost of transport. 



STOCK BREEDING has been thoroughly investigated by the- 

 Fomento Greral de Angola. Not all apparently favourable tracts, 

 of land are suitable for this purpose. 



Pigs do very well and weigh 1-200 kilos in 11 months. 



The Angola Estates, in which the Bovril Company is. 

 interested, are carrying on a big stock-breeding undertaking north 

 of the Benguella railway, some 350 kilometres off the coast, 

 1,500 metres above the sea level. There are 600 head of cattle. 



Sheep, mohair goats, and horses have not been tried. 



The tse t&e fly is a great nuisance, as it affects cattle exactly 

 where the grazing conditions would be more favourable. And 

 not all herbages are good. Many are poisonous. 



Stock breeding is a modern industry and, as such, requires 

 the most suitable cross-breds and appropriate conditions. Experi- 

 ments have been carried out in several places simultaneously and 

 a scientific analysis of the results has to be made prior to any- 

 conclusion being arrived at. 



It seems, however, that the Malange and Amboim districts 

 may prove to be successful. 



RICE yields as much as 3 tons per hectare in some places. 



As labour is becoming dear and difficult to obtain, there are 

 no prospects of expanding any branch of agriculture where 

 mechanical cultivation is made impossible and where 'transport 

 facilities are not available. The High Commissioner has caused 

 20,000 kilometres of excellent motor roads to be cut through 

 the lands which are considered suitable for white colonisation, 

 and it is thus possible to travel through Angola in light motor- cars 

 at high speed. 



FISHERIES are exploited in the southern coast, in the district 

 of Mossamedes. Some 8,000 tons of dried fish is exported every 

 year from this area. Oil, guano, hides, and other sub-products 

 of the industry have not been utilised. 



