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    Legal aspects of production and marketing of coffee and cotton in Tanzania up to 1992.
    (University of Dar es Salaam, 1993) Urio, Alphonce Makitauo Andrew
    This is a study on legal aspects of production and marketing of coffee and cotton in Tanzania up to 1992. The primary aim of this study is to investigate the motives behind and reasons of, using law in the regulation of production and the marketing of cash crops generally, and of coffee and cotton in particular. The study investigates two hypotheses. The first and the main one, which runs throughout the work is that, legal regulation of production and the marketing of coffee and cotton was, and still is, not for the benefit or interests of the small holder peasant farmers but rather, for the interests of the government. The peasants have only been peripheral beneficiaries. The second hypothesis, a subsidiary one says that, law is an instrument of the government with an object to protect government interests. The study is therefore divided into five chapters as follows.Chapter one provides for introductory matters, including the formulation of the hypotheses of this study. In chapter two, the study traces reasons behind the introduction of the cash crops in Tanganyika during the colonial period and the need to use law to regulate production and marketing of such crops, particularly, coffee and cotton. It is concluded that the main objective of introducing cash crop production was geared towards the meeting of the imperialist raw materials requirements on the one hand and the generation of surplus from the export of the cash crops for the government use on the other. Chapter three is devoted to the legal regulations and controls of production and marketing of coffee and cotton during the independence period. The object is to examine the reasons for the continuance of such regulations and controls by the independence government and the importance coffee and cotton in particular and of cash crops generally to the government. Chapter four makes an overall assessment of the operations and consequences of the legal regulations of production and marketing of coffee and cotton both during the colonial period and in the post independence period. Chapter five makes a general conclusion and it includes recommendations for immediate and long term reforms in the prevailing crop production and marketing arrangements.