Island of 



Island of 





Average 



Zanzibar 



Pemba 



Total 



price 





Frasilah *) 





Rupees 



4494I 



150703 



195644 



6.3 — 



149417 



48I505 



630982 



6.8.9 



59751 



206640 



266381 



6.1.— 



3756/ 



20I 192 



238759 



7-— •— 



43626 



321599 



365 225 



6.6.6 



175420 



251780 



427 200 



6.8.6 



28369 



96792 



125 161 



134.— 



76860 



675683 



755 543 



9.5.6 



181536 



IO993I 



291467 



11. 14.3 



55 833 



202633 



259466 



13.—.- 



— 39 



Crop year 



1897/98 . 



1898/99 . 

 1899/1900 

 1 900/0 1 



1901/02 . 



1902/03 . 



1903/04 . 



1904/05 . 



1905/06 . 

 1906/07 



Average yield of each crop: 355582 frasilah; average price of the last 

 10 crops: 8.9.3 rupees. 



This price only applies to Pemba cloves; Zanzibar cloves are a little 

 dearer. 



No exact census has been taken of the clove-trees in the two islands, 

 but from fairly reliable data it is estimated that, in round figures, there are 

 2000000 trees in Zanzibar and 3000000 in Pemba. The Government owns 

 on its own plantations in Zanzibar about 130000 trees, in Pemba 26000 trees. 

 Taking bearing and non-bearing trees together, one frasilah of cloves gathered 

 represents the produce of 20,9 trees in Zanzibar, and, in round figures, of 

 10 trees in Pemba. 



The last crop of the Government plantations yielded in round figures 

 7680 frasilah in Zanzibar and 4596 in Pemba. 



The calculation of average yields is made extraordinarily difficult by the 

 unusually heavy fluctuations in the output of the several plantations. A further 

 factor in the uncertainty is that in years of an abundant crop, part of the 

 trees cannot be picked at all on account of want of labourers. 



Generally speaking, the want of sufficient labourers to harvest the clove 

 crop has a disturbing effect upon the further development of this cultivation, 

 and has driven the prices up to a considerable extent. Whereas, for example, 

 the price formerly paid for gathering the cloves was 4 pesa per pishi (mea- 

 sure of capacity) of cloves, as much as 9 pesa had to be paid at the beginning 

 of the last crop. Taking an average of 8 pesa, the wages paid for gathering 

 come to 2 1 / 2 rupees per frasilah. About 20 pishi (= 50 to 60 lbs.) of green 

 cloves equal one frasilah of dried cloves. 



Last year about 1200 labourers from British East Africa were brought 

 to Pemba by the Government, and it is reported that about 300 men came to 

 Pemba from Zanzibar to gather cloves. In spite of this it is said to have been 

 impossible to pick the whole of the crop. 



The exports of clove stems amounted to: — 





1905 



1906 



Weight in lbs. 



1907 



Europe 



. . 3777062 



2317305 



2055415 



Asia 



• • 63835 



63056 



48125 



America 



. . 149426 



— 



179900 



Africa . . 



— 



2065 



— 



*) 1 frasilah = 35 lbs. avoirdupois. 



