Tanganyika groundnut scheme | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-01-19

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00:00:38 1 Objectives
00:02:15 2 Cultivation
00:06:10 3 Takeover and railway construction
00:07:31 4 Cultural references
00:09:37 5 See also



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The Tanganyika groundnut scheme, or East Africa groundnut scheme, was a failed attempt by the British government to cultivate tracts of Tanganyika (modern-day Tanzania) with peanuts. Launched in the aftermath of World War II by the administration of prime minister Clement Attlee, the project was finally abandoned as unworkable in 1951 at considerable cost. 
The fact that the region's terrain and rainfall were totally inappropriate for growing groundnuts, as well as the project's ultimate cost and failure, led to the scheme being popularly seen as a symbol of government failure in late colonial Africa.