Among the new industries are sugar and coffee plantations, while cotton, ground-nuts and rubber figure increasingly among the exports, cotton and cottonseed being of special importance.
Measured by the value of the products, 61 8% were represented by flour and grist mill products and cottonseed oil and cake.
With regard to edible oils, edible cottonseed oil is the only table oil produced in Great Britain.
The United Ste tes takes the foremost place in the world for the production of cottonseed and maize oils, lard, bone fat and fish oils.
It is made from potato starch, tapioca flour, leavening agents (calcium lactate, calcium carbonate, and citric acid) and a gum derived from cottonseed.