The exchange of cotton: Ugandan peasants, colonial market regulations and the organisation of international cotton trade, 1904 - 1918
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| adam_text | Torbjorn Engdahl
The Exchange of Cotton
Ugandan Peasants, Colonial Market Regulations and
the Organisation of International Cotton Trade,
1904-1918
UPPSALA 1999
Contents
List of Tables, Figures and Plates 9
Weights and measures 11
Abbreviations 11
Acknowledgements 13
Introduction: A Study of the Exchange of Uganda Cotton 15
Perspectives on the Trade in Uganda Cotton 16
The Framework of the Study 19
Setting the Research Task and the Structure of the Study 22
Source Material 24
PART ONE 29
Chapter One: International Cotton Trade and Colonial Politics 31
Colonial Politics in the Age of Internationalisation 32
From Slave Trade to Legitimate Trade 33
The Establishment of the Uganda Protectorate 34
Colonial Occupation and Legitimate Labour Control 37
Transoceanic Trade in the Age of Colonialism 40
The Structuration of the Transoceanic Marketing Channel 40
The Organisation of International Cotton Trade 43
World Supply and Demand of Cotton 45
Outline of Part One 50
Chapter Two: The Supply of Peasant Grown Cotton 51
Cotton Cultivation 51
The Introduction and Distribution of Cotton in Uganda 51
Cultivation Techniques, Ecological Conditions and Cotton Yields 53
Peasant Labour under the Chiefs Control 58
Agricultural Systems in Buganda and the Eastern Province 59
Communal Land or Individual Plots? 60
Authority as Chiefs or as Holders of Land? 62
Chiefs and the Supply of Raw Cotton 64
Chiefs Advising the Peasants to Raise their Selling Price 65
The Chiefs Claim on the Crop 69
Conclusion 71
Chapter Three: From Local Markets to the Cotton Exchange 73
Firms Involved in the Uganda Cotton Trade 73
Local Traders in Raw Cotton 74
Free-Standing Companies 76
Merchant, Shipping and Industrial Groups 78
Merchant Houses 81
The Processing Industry 85
Ginneries 85
The Development of Ginning Capacity 86
Financing the Purchase and Export of Cotton 89
Financing Local Purchase 89
Financing Export 92
International Cotton Trade Institutions 95
Spot Market 97
Futures Market 99
Price Determination in Futures Markets 100
The Exporters Demand Function 101
Conclusion 103
Chapter Four: The Politics of Uganda Cotton 107
The Political Initiative under Financial Constraints 107
Subordination to the Treasury 108
The Uganda Government s Sources of Revenue 110
Cotton Cultivation as a Revenue-Generating Industry 113
Creating Implementing Capacity 115
Government Development Strategy 115
The Agricultural Department 117
Clients and Coalitions 120
The Engagement of Business Interests 121
Authority and Agricultural Policy in Rural Communities 122
Conclusion 126
PART Two 129
Chapter Five: The Making of Colonial Quality Regulations 131
The Government s Interest in Cotton Quality 131
Quality Problems and Local Prices 133
Adverse Selection and Problems of Maintaining Quality 134
The Policy Making Process 13 7
The Bureaucratic Procedures of the Uganda Government 138
Outline of Part Two 142
Chapter Six: Government Control of Seed Distribution 145
The Existence of a Quality Problem? 145
Doubts and Evidence as to the State of the Cotton Industry 146
Reconstruction of the Marketing Structure 149
The Bulemezi Model for Distributing Seeds and Buying Cotton 150
Hand-Ginning and Seed Distribution Beyond Control 152
The West African Model for Seed Selection 154
The Enactment of the Cotton Ordinance and the First Rules 155
Suggested Measures to Prevent Quality Deterioration 156
A Reinterpretation of the Reasons for the Cotton Ordinance of 1908 157
The Content of the Cotton Ordinance and the First Rules 158
The Implementation of Seed Control 160
Supply of New Seeds 160
The Control of Cotton Seed from Hand-Gins 163
A Policy of Cotton Cultivation 164
Conclusion 166
Chapter Seven: Middlemen and the Control of Market Places 169
Changing Buying Practices between 1908 and 1913 169
The Establishment of Outlying Buying Depots 170
Attempts to Make Price Arrangements among the Ginners 171
Intermediary Transactions in Supervised Markets 173
In Search for a Marketing Policy 175
Government Market Policies before 1911 175
The Cotton Purchasing Rules of 1911 177
Discrimination in Prices or Separation of Qualities 179
Cotton Quality and the Control of the Middleman 182
Open Cotton Markets 182
Attempts to Bring the Ginners and Growers Together 184
The Introduction of Buying Licences and Permits 186
Long Stapled American Cotton 188
Conclusion 189
Chapter Eight: Uncertainty and Risks during the First World War 193
The Impact of the War on the Export of Uganda Cotton 194
The Liverpool Cotton Exchange during the War 194
First World War in East Africa and its Impact on Transport Facilities 195
Overview of the Uganda Cotton Seasons during the War 197
Securing Credits to Dispose of the 1915 Crop 198
Government Guarantees and the BCGA s Buying Scheme 198
The Buying Season in 1915 200
Shitting Destination to India 202
Indians as a Dominant Factor 204
Transport Difficulties in 1916 and 1917 206
Access to Credit Facilities 209
The Open Market System 211
Price Regulations and Allocation of Profits in 1918 213
Government Buying Scheme in 1918 213
Regulating the Growers Price and the Middlemen s Profits 215
The Imposition of the Excess Profit Tax 217
Permanent Buying Stores and the End of the Open Market System 219
Conclusion 222
Summary: Market Practices and Regulations in Uganda 225
Part One 225
Part Two 228
Conclusion 231
Bibliography 237
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