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...islands' paradisiac features -notably its unspoiled beaches-have attracted a growing number of tourists. Last year 35,000 flew into the $14 million jetport on the island of Mahe. Although tourism has already replaced copra and cinnamon as the islands' source of foreign exchange, the President is determined that the Seychelles will not become "a nation of waiters." Says Mancham: "We have learned our lesson from the overcommercialization and human pollution that have spoiled much of Tahiti and the Caribbean. Here, no hotel will be built higher than a coconut palm." Viewed from such modest heights, the future...
...help 46 African, Caribbean and Pacific states, whose principal exports include cocoa, coffee, copra and cotton. If one of those countries' commodity earnings drop below an established minimum, it can draw an amount equal to the shortfall from the fund; when the commodity earnings recover, the fund is repaid...
...Comoro Islands, situated between Mozambique and the island republic of Malagasy, are not only one of the world's least-known places but also one of the poorest. The 290,000 people who inhabit the four islands have a per capita G.N.P. (mostly from vanilla, sisal and copra) of about $100. If France, which acquired the islands in the 19th century, did not provide an annual $35 million, or 80% of the budget, their misery would be absolute rather than conditional. Last week, after a 27-day flirtation with total freedom from France, the Comoros decided to temper independence...
...with a population of 500, has been ruled more or less benevolently like a feudal fiefdom for the past 145 years by descendants of a Scottish sea captain named John Clunies-Ross. He settled in the coconut-growing islands in 1827, imported Malay workers from Java to harvest the copra for export, and in 1886 his grandson obtained a grant in perpetuity to the islands from Queen Victoria...
...Copra (Banfam) There She Is: The Life and Times...