Excerpt from Foreign Agriculture, Vol. 24: March 1960 Throughout East Africa agricultural researchers are continuously searching for crops that can be grown profitably so as to raise the income level of farmers. Currently the spotlight is on cocoa. If cocoa can be produced on a commercial basis for export, it would not only help the farmers but would add another crop to the very limited number that these East Afri can countries depend on for their foreign exchange earnings. Both Uganda and Tanganyika base their agricultural economy on cotton, cof fee, and tea, plus sisal in Tanganyika. Zanzibar is even more limited in that it can look only to cloves and coconuts for any sizable income. Cocoa, or cacao, as it is often called, comes from a small tree indigenous to the forests of Central and South America; but shortly before W'orld II, Africa took the lead in cocoa production. Today the African countries bordering on the Gulf of Guinea export two-thirds of the world's cocoa. Ghana, for example, depends almost entirely on cocoa. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.