Table 4. --FLUE-CURED: Acreage, yield, sales, and price, Salisbury auction, by area of 

 tobacco origin, average 1937-41, annual 194.9-63-'- 



Sale 

 year 



Growers 



Acreage 



Total sales 

 (including 

 direct sales) 



Average 



yield 



per acre 



Auction sales, 



average price 



per pound 



Southern fUiodesia; 

 Average : 



1937-41 



Annual: 

 1949. 

 1950. 

 1951. 

 1952. 

 1953. 

 1954. 

 1955. 



Niimber 



576 



Acres 



53,142 



Pounds 



27,101,507 



1,778 



125,968 



81,722,214 



2,100 



152,717 



104,262,802 



2,349 



168,000 



89,473,761 



2,546 



189,151 



96,577,695 



2,460 



177,091 



105,151,836 



2,526 



168,424 



120,251,036 



2,529 



171,761 



120,558,912 



Northwestern Northern Rhodesia: 

 1949 64 



1950. 

 1951. 

 1952. 

 1953. 

 1954. 

 1955. 



South-Western Area : ^ 



1956 



1957 



1958 



1959 



1960 



1961 



1962 



1963^ 



118 

 211 

 253 

 258 

 204 

 172 



2,836 

 2,723 

 2,821 

 2,964 

 2,924 

 2,911 

 2,890 

 2,970 



3,870 



6,609 



12,121 



15,599 



15,380 



9,084 



8,653 



204,026 

 182,212 

 207,000 

 216,000 

 212,153 

 224,613 

 225,696 

 246,665 



1,675,533 

 2,956,545 

 6,262,457 

 5,418,723 

 6,739,094 

 5,176,089 

 5,363,800 



171, 

 144, 

 152, 

 191, 

 217, 

 233, 

 230, 

 194, 



671,368 

 338,452 

 754,335 

 297,891 

 869,156 

 351,177 

 790, 771 

 579,000 



Pounds 



513 



649 

 683 

 533 

 511 

 594 

 714 

 702 



433 



447 

 517 

 347 

 438 

 570 

 620 



841 



792 



738 



886 



1,027 



1,039 



1,023 



805 



Equiv. U.S. 

 cents 



13.8 



37. 

 43. 

 40, 

 49, 

 46. 

 44. 

 47. 



37.0 

 45.8 

 44.5 

 37.6 

 40.7 

 40.7 

 44.1 



38.4 

 45.9 

 42.5 

 40.2 

 39.8 

 39.4 

 40.8 

 48.5 



^ 1937-62 data from S.W. Marketing Board Annual Report. 1963 data from FAS reports . 



^ South-Westem Area data, 1956-63, includes data for all Southern Rhodesia plus all 

 Northern Rhodesia (excepting for the northeastern area of the latter, the tobacco from 

 which is sold in Limbe, Nyasaland.) In short, data from 1956 on roughly combines that from 

 the two areas treated separately up to 1955. 



■^ Preliminary. 



The main tobacco growers' organization in the Rhodesias and Nyasaland has been 

 the RTA, which handled market promotion work as well as research. RTA gets its funds 

 from a statutory levy. Levy rates in 1962 were: 



Pence per pound 



All flue- cured 1/3 



All Turkish 1/2 



All other types were taxed as follows: 



(a) South- Western area 1/3 



(b) North-Eastern area 1/700 



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