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Tobacco, Time, and the Household Economy in Two Kenyan Societies: The Teso and the Kuria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Suzette Heald
Suzette Heald
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University of Lancaster
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In 1975, the transnational British American Tobacco Company (BAT) set out to rapidly develop tobacco growing in four areas of smallholder production in Kenya. This move, prompted by the Kenyan firm's loss of tobacco leaf supplies from Uganda in 1972 and then Tanzania in 1976, was to prove remarkably successful. Output in the four areas chosen for production of tobacco leaf rose from 209 tons in 1975 to 4,034 tons in 1982, making Kenya self-sufficient in that crop despite a simultaneous sales campaign which doubled the domestic consumption of manufactured cigarettes over the same period. Production has continued to rise since then, with about 8,000 small-holder farmers in the scheme producing 6,000 tons of cured tobacco leaf in 1984.

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The Cultural Component of Economic Change
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , January 1991 , pp. 130 - 157
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1991

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