. Cotton and other vegetable fibres : their production and utilisation . n can be effected. In the Lake District ofthe Nyanza Province, however, the conditions arefavourable, and the natives are now planting cottonas an adjunct to the cultivation of sesame and otherfood-crops ; it is anticipated that the productionin this district will gradually increase. The exports of cotton from the East Africa Pro-tectorate during the years 1904-1914 are shown inthe following table. Year. Quantity. Value. lb. i 1904 . . 28,880 285 1905 99,456 1,273 1906 102,256 1,407 1907 81,100 1,843 1908 251,328 5,907 19
. Cotton and other vegetable fibres : their production and utilisation . n can be effected. In the Lake District ofthe Nyanza Province, however, the conditions arefavourable, and the natives are now planting cottonas an adjunct to the cultivation of sesame and otherfood-crops ; it is anticipated that the productionin this district will gradually increase. The exports of cotton from the East Africa Pro-tectorate during the years 1904-1914 are shown inthe following table. Year. Quantity. Value. lb. i 1904 . . 28,880 285 1905 99,456 1,273 1906 102,256 1,407 1907 81,100 1,843 1908 251,328 5,907 1909 141,792 4,440 I9IO 163,184 7,477 19II 166,033 6,313 I912 295,232 11,831 1913 . 134,875 5,476 1914 . 17,465 614 Reference may be made to the cultivation of cottonin German East Africa, where much greater successhas been obtained than in the British has been found that American Upland varieties arebest adapted for native cultivation. The crop cannotbe grown very satisfactorily near the coast, butseveral districts in the interior possess favourable. From the Collections of the Imperial Institute Cotton Field, Nyasaland Protectorate.
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