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Why were Africans not allowed to grow cash crops during the colonial period?

Give reasons as to why Africans not allowed to grow cash crops during the colonial period?

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John
1. Cash crop farming was white man’s affair

2. Fear of spread of diseases to settlers farms

3. European farmers feared competition from the Africans

4. Fear of lose of labour for settlers

Africans were expected to provide labour on settler forms

Europeans settler did not want to compete with Africans in cash crop growing

The settlers claimed that African did not have enough knowledge of growing cash crops as this would lead to low quality products

They feared that crops diseases would spread from African Farms to settler plantations

Europeans setters claimed that African farmers would produce low quality crops due to inadequate resources.
johnmulu answered the question on January 24, 2017 at 13:08

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