- AGRICULTURE
- British took over the supervision of the futher Germans plantations after the 1WW.
- British allowed German planters to find former German plantations during the auction sales in London in 1924 at the cost of £ 224670
- The plantations were found around Idenay, Tiko, Tole, Victoria , Misselele
- Medical officers were appointed to ensure proper sanitation and help the plantation workers. Crops Cultivated in the plantation were cupper, banana, coffee, oil palm.
- Labour for the plantations came from the grass field French Cameroon and Nigeria.
HOW AGRICULTURRE WAS PROMOTED
- The British were assisted by chief and the argument of laborers.
- The workers were accumulated in camps
- In other to ensure the protection of crops and harvest civil police were employed in the estate.
- Road were constructed.
- The Victoria, Tiko and Bota.
- The plantations provided jobs for the natives there were about 25000 found jobs by 1930.
- It lead to construction of roads and bridges.
- It lead to the expansion of the port of Victoria and Tiko
- It lead to the establishment of health centers Schools etc cater for the Workers.
- Natives were deprived of their fertile lands for the cultivation of local crops.
- Wages were very low.
- Natives were confected in Camps.
- It led to separation of family because of the forceful recruitment of workers especially in the Bamenda grassland who were transported over long distances to worker in plantation.
- Industralisation was also neglected
- Cash crops production instead encouraged.
- TRANSPORTTATION AND COMMUNICATION
Through out the mandate period the state of lost of southern Cameroon was lightly deplolabel little to talk about railways.
Description
- Narrow roads and Bridges were constructed linking Victoria, Tiko , Muyuka , Kumba and Mamfe. These roads were mostly seasoner and was maintained by the earthquakes.
- The poor facilities in Victoria and Tiko ws expanded.
- The British also developed roads linking the territories to French Cameroon. These roads include Kumba, Loum, Bamenda and Mbouda.
- Postal services and telephone network were expand linking Tiko, Buea and Victoria.
Method used to promote transport and communication
- The money used to finance the project were taxes collected from the natives
- Other revenues came from Britain.
- Natives were recruited as laborers in the construction project.
- Transport promoted agriculture
- It promoted the international trade because of the expansion of the international trade because of the expansion of the Tiko and the Victoria force.
- Transport also promoted national unity.
- The project were very tedias for the natives.
- The Natives were given low wages and compensation.
- It encourage movement to the coast and congestion.
