July, 1912.] 



67 



Miscellaneous, 



DEVELOPMENT OP AGRICULTURE 

 IN KAMERUN*. 



SCHLOSSMACHER. 



(Wirt8chaftliche Tatsachen und Moglich- 

 heiten aua Kamerun). — Deutsche Kolo- 

 nialzeitung, Nr. 6, pp. 84-86. Berlin, 10 

 February, 1912. 



(Bulletin of the Bureau of Agricultural 

 Intelligence and of Plant-Diseases, 

 3rd year— Number 4, April, 1912.) 



In the last nine years the agricultural 

 exportation of Kamerun has gone stead- 

 ily up, as seen by the following figures:— 



1902 ... ... £327,000 



1909 ... ... £772,000 



1910 ... ... £1,080,000 



This shows a three-fold increase in the 

 nine years. 



The principal articles of export are 

 rubber, palm-nuts, palm-nut oil, and 

 cocoa. The exportation of all these, 

 however, is susceptible of considerable 

 increase. At present the plantations of 

 rubber and cocoa are hardly in bearing, 

 and new districts are being opened up 

 where rubber and palm-nuts can be 

 grown. 



For the development of the trade in 

 palm-nuts and palm-nut oil, factories 

 must be set up. 



The future of rubber, palm-nut oil and 

 cocoa in the world's commerce is indis- 

 putable, so that from this point of view 

 Kamerun is favourably situated. The 

 exportation of ivory, however, is steadi 

 ly declining ; but this might be made up 

 for by growing tobacco, which has been 

 shown to give excellent crops in Kame- 

 run. 



There is further great scope for the 

 exploitation of timber, both common 

 and choice. 



Live-stock breeding should not be 

 excluded in the Upper Kamerun— the 



* See B. January 1911, No. 14 ; July 1911, 

 No. 2047 j January 1912, No. 20, 



Breeding Station supported by the 

 Government and by a Mission which has 

 started experiments in conjunction with 

 cultivators, has obtained good results. 

 But live-stock can only be of local value 

 and will not serve for exportation. 



For rubber development two laws are 

 required : the first should protect rat- 

 ional exploitation from the destructive- 

 ness of the natives ; the second should 

 deal with the commercial classification 

 of rubber, so as to improve its position, 

 on the world's market. 



The chief zone of rubber plantations, 

 belonging to the Association is in the 

 northern mountain and forest regions, 

 but there are also some at Sanga and in 

 the South, 



The demand for land for cultivation is 

 increasing. The government has decid- 

 ed to contract leases and sales only with 

 a guarantee of cultivation, so as to 

 prevent speculation which may end by 

 leaving the land uncultivated. 



The progress of Kamerun is bound up 

 with the development of railways and 

 other means of communication, as well 

 as with the regulation of watercourses. 



AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS FROM 

 ZANZIBAR IN 1910. 



Giribnd (French Consul at Zanzibar). 



(L'Exportation agricole de Zanzibar en 

 1910).— Rapports Commerciaux des 

 Agents diplomatiques et Consulaires 

 de France ; No. 976 ; pp. 1-17. Paris, 1912. 



(Bulletin of the Bureau of Agricultural 

 Intelligence and of Plant-Diseases. 

 3rd year— Number 4, April, 1912.) 



For some years there has been a 

 sensible decrease in agricultural exports 

 from Zanzibar. This is due to the fact 

 that the commerce of the interior is 

 being deviated to the English port of 

 Mombasa and the German port of Dares* 

 salam. It is very regrettable that agrj. 



