The development of the rubber industry in West Africa

Abstract

When it is borne in mind that only 5 per oeat1 of natural rubber is consumed in the producing countries and that of the $1,000 million in foreign exchange that the sale of rubber brings in annually these countries must immediately reserve $300 million to purchase rubber goods from industrialized countries, it is easy to see the many advantages that can theoretically be expected from establishing local rubber industries in these countries.