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Banana Industry in Cameroon


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0102 MS 380640

Held at: School of Oriental and African Studies

Title: Banana Industry in Cameroon

Date(s): 1954-[1982]

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 box

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

In the colonial period Cameroon was divided between French and British influence. The French Cameroons achieved independence in 1960. Soon afterwards the British territory was divided, the northern zone being united with Nigeria and the southern incorporated with Cameroon. Agriculture is important to the economy, with bananas among the significant exports.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers, 1954-[1982], relating to the banana industry in Cameroon and in particular to organisations representing banana growers, comprising microfiche copies, undated, of papers relating to companies including Elders and Fyffes Ltd and United Fruit Shippers Ltd; meteorological statistics (1929-1982) for Tiko, Loum, Mbanga and Nkongsamba [1982]; British Cameroons Co-operative Department printed reports, 1954-1958, including statistics relating to bananas and other products, and related issues; BCUF (Bakweri Co-operative Union of Farmers) and Contracts file, 1957-1965, comprising typescript and printed papers and contracts with Elders and Fyffes Ltd relating to banana production and sales; typescript papers by David Philip on Sigatoka disease and the BCUF, 1958, and Cameroon Banana Industry, c1980; selected typescript minutes and papers of SDIBC (Syndicat de Defense de Interêts Bananier du Cameroon), 1959-1980; selected typescript minutes, 1962-1965, of FEBACAM (Federation Bananiers du Cameroon) and UGECOBAM; typescript extracts from IFAC (Institut Français de Recherches Fruitières) Programme de Reconversion Bananiere and agreements with smallholders, 1967; typescript papers on land tenure, 1967-1976.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English and French

System of arrangement:

The papers comprise nine subject files as indicated in Scope and content.

Conditions governing access:

Unrestricted.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Database.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The material was presented by Dr Heintzen.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Revised by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Source: http://www.encyclopedia.com

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Apr 2002


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Agricultural production | Agricultural economics
Colonial countries | Political systems
Contract law | Civil law | Legal systems | Law
Food production | Cultivation | Agronomy
Fruit | Plant products | Agricultural products
Land tenure | Land economics | Agricultural economics
Meteorological data | Meteorology
Plant diseases | Botany
Private enterprises | Enterprises
Statistical data | Statistics
Biology

Personal names
Philip | David | fl 1958-c 1980 | analyst of the banana industry

Corporate names
Bakweri Co-operative Union of Farmers | Cameroon
Elders and Fyffes Ltd | banana importers
FEBACAM | Federation Bananiers du Cameroon x Federation Bananiers du Cameroon
Institut Français de Recherches Fruitières
Syndicat de Defense de Interêts Bananier du Cameroon
United Fruit Shippers Ltd | US company

Places
Loum | Cameroon | Central Africa
Mbanga | Cameroon | Central Africa
Nkongsamba | Cameroon | Central Africa
Tiko | Cameroon | Central Africa