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Uganda Tobacco
For several years after independence, tobacco was one
of
Uganda's major foreign exchange earners, ranking fourth
after
coffee, cotton, and tea. Like all other traditional cash
crops,
tobacco production also suffered from Uganda's political
insecurity and economic mismanagement. Most tobacco grew
in the
northwestern corner of the country, where violence became
especially severe in the late 1970s, and rehabilitation of
this
industry was slow. In 1981, for example, farmers produced
only
sixty-three tons of tobacco. There was some increase in
production after 1981, largely because of the efforts of
the
British American Tobacco Company, which repossessed its
former
properties in 1984. Although the National Tobacco
Corporation
processed and marketed only 900 tons of tobacco in 1986,
output
had more than quadrupled by 1989.
Data as of December 1990
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