Some aspects of the development of cash cropping in North Borneo

Abstract

The present study is by no means to be taken as a complete survey of all aspects of cash cropping in North Borneo an area of some 29,000 square miles and containing about 454,000 inhabitants. Nor does it attempt to cover the minor cash crops - cocoa, oil palms and coffee - mainly due to inadequate statistical and locational data. In the writer's view, tobacco, rubber and coconuts have played a dominant role in the economic development of the country in the past, and have also brought about socio-economic and demographic changes since the 1890s. The chapters are so arranged as to discuss these interrelated aspects of cash cropping:-