ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on documentary sources and field surveys in the West Nile Region of Uganda, carried out in 1988–9 by a team of four researchers. The field surveys were undertaken at a time when British American Tobacco was introducing new designs of furnace for tobacco curing kilns, and after considerable rehabilitation had taken place to both co-operative society and individual property used in the production and marketing of tobacco. Tobacco was introduced more than fifty years ago, in 1936. Various other agricultural innovations preceded tobacco and many other events, some of a revolutionary and even violent nature, occurred both before and after the introduction of tobacco. The tobacco-growing areas of Arua, which comprise the counties of Maracha, Ayivu, Terego, and parts of Vurra, Koboko and Aringa. Tobacco production requires the co-ordination or integration of a number of activities.
