HC Deb 26 July 1950 vol 478 cc71-3W
116. Sir R. Acland

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will make a statement naming all the marketing boards or analogous organisations which operate in respect of products produced in the Colonies; and saying what sums now stand to the credit of each as a result of their operations.

Mr. J. Griffiths

The following are the more important marketing organisations which handle Colonial produce for export:

  • The Gold Coast Cocoa Marketing Board.
  • The Nigeria Cocoa Marketing Board.
  • The Gold Coast Agricultural Produce Marketing Board.
  • The Nigeria Groundnut Marketing Board.
  • The Nigeria Oil Palm Produce Marketing Board.
  • The Nigeria Cotton Marketing Board.
  • The Sierra Leone Produce Marketing Board.
  • The Gambia Oilseeds Marketing Board.
  • The Uganda Lint Marketing Board.
  • The Bugishu Coffee Scheme Board (Uganda).
  • The Uganda Non-Native Coffee Marketing Board.
  • The Uganda Coffee Control.
  • The Coffee Marketing Board of Kenya.
  • The Kenya Sisal Board.
  • The Pyrethrum Board of Kenya.
  • The Kenya Pig Industry Board.
  • The Kenya Co-operative Creameries Ltd.
  • The Kenya Farmers Association Ltd.
  • The Tanganyika Coffee Growers Association Ltd.
  • The Moshi Native Coffee Board (Tanganyika).
  • The Bukoba Native Coffee Board (Tanganyika).
  • The Tanganyika Pyrethrum Board.
  • The Zanzibar Clove Growers Association.
  • The Native Tobacco Board (Nyasaland).
  • The Citrus Growers Association Ltd. (Jamaica).
  • The Co-operative Citrus Growers Association of Trinidad and Tobago Ltd.
  • The Grenada Co-operative Nutmeg Association.
  • The St. Vincent Arrowroot Association.
  • The British Guiana Rice Marketing Board.
  • The Fiji Copra Board.

For the latest available information as to the reserve funds of the Gold Coast and Nigeria Cocoa Marketing Boards I would refer my hon. Friend to the Boards' Annual Reports for the year 1948–49, copies of which can be obtained from the Crown Agents for the Colonies.

The other West African Marketing Boards began operating only in 1949, and information as to their reserves will not be available until their first annual reports and accounts are published.

In Uganda the Cotton Price Assistance Fund stood at £7,351,206 on the 31st March, 1950, and the Coffee Fund at £2,037,106. These funds are administered by Government.

The Kenya Sisal Board, the Pyrethrum Boards and the Fiji Copra Board do not operate price stabilisation funds.

I regret that in the time available it has not been possible to assemble information as to the reserves, if any, standing to the credit of the other boards.