Labour requirements
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We tabulate below the labour requirements which, as far as we can see, would be required to implement these proposals. For clearing we have based our estimate mainly on the proposals for the East African Groundnut Scheme but have modified the proportion of Europeans to Africans in the labour force in the light of recent experience in East Africa, i.e. we have taken as the basis of our calculations sixteen Europeans to each battery of twenty 150 h.p. bulldozers and fifty Africans to each European.
We have also taken 8,000 acres as the amount such a battery would clear in a year. On this basis the man-power for clearing would be as follows: (a) Damaturu
Year
Acreage Cleared
Batteries
Europeans
Africans
1948
8,000
1
16
800
1949
44,000
4
64
5,200
1950
100,000.
9
144
7,200
1951
120,000
10
160
8,000
1952
120,000
10
160
8,000
1955
120,000
10
160
8,000
1954
120,000
10
160
8,000
1955
40,000
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2,700
(b) Kontagora, Northern Ashanti and Western Gonja
Teach area
Year
Acreage Cleared
Batteries
Europeans
Africans
1948
8,000
1949
4,000
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1
16
800
1950
nil
1951
nil
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1952
40,000
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2,800
1953
100,000
9
144
7,200
1954
120,000
10
160
8,000
1955
120,000
10
160
8,000
1956
120,000
10
160
8,000
1957
120,000
10
160
8,000
1958
40,000
3/1/2
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2,700
(c) Gambia
Year
Acreage Cleared
Batteries
Europeans
1948
1949
8,000 10,000
1 1
16
16
Africans
800
800
For estimating man-power for cultivation we have taken the following basis:
(1) each tractor unit block would employ 20 Africans (see Chapter III paragraph 9(b),)
(2) cach group headquarters would employ:
3 Europeans (see chap.III paragraph 10)
Clerk.
Storekeep
Tally Clérk
Mechanics
1 Dispenser
or 6 Africans.
(3)