FOREWORD 



This report is intended as a reference on tobacco pro- 

 duction and marketing in each of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland, 

 as the three separate from their former Federation. On 

 December 31, 1963, the Federation of the Rhodesias and 

 Nyasaland was dissolved, with Nyasaland planning to become 

 Malawi, and Northern Rhodesia, Zambia or Zambesi. Southern 

 Rhodesia will not take a new name. 



This half- million- square- miile area of southeast Africa 

 is of great significance to the U.S. tobacco industry. Southern 

 Rhodesia is second largest producer-exporter of flue-cured 

 in the Free World, and it produces approximately 50 percent 

 of the tobacco output of the entire African Continent. 



The study is based primarily on material gathered by 

 the author in an on-the-spot survey of the area. 



C. Kige:^ Director 

 acco Division 



