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Résumé :
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It is suggested that broad development through structural change requires the transformation of subsistence agriculture; political and social reforms are also prerequisites for real development. The requisitioning of crops and livestock and recruitment of labour with or without compensation are strong disincentives to increased food production. Though suitable land and labour are available, food production has remained at subsistence level, with the result that increasing quantities of food have to be imported. Shifting cultivation is still practised by about 150, 000 tribal farmers, though commercial farming is developing. Rubber is by far the major product of commercial farms, but management on these farms is poor. Detailed information is presented on the plantation companies, including the characteristics of the concession agreements, projections of planting and production, and labour requirements and labour problems. T. A.
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