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The farmland of Okuku was completely planted with cocoa and kola trees in the 1930s and 1940s. Yields began to fall in the late 1940s as the trees passed their most productive age and the soil became exhausted. Farmers were forced to buy or rent land distant from the town, often at considerable
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