Explain six ways through which the colonial government promoted settler farming.

Explain six ways through which the colonial government promoted settler farming.

• European settlers were provided with large tracts of land which were alienated from Africans through various land legislations
• The introduction of forced labour on European farms ensured steady supply of cheap labour for
• The introduction of the Kipande system ensured that Africans remained in employment
• The squatter system ensured that Africans residing on the settle farms provided the required labour in return for small plots where they practiced subsistence farming
• Forced settlement of Africans in overcrowded and unproductive reserves forced them to seek wage employment in settler farms.
• Africans were forbidden from growing some cash and keeping exotic animals to force them to seek wage employment in settler farms.
• Establishment of African reserves in remote and undeveloped areas to deprive them of market for their produce.
• Introduction of payment of taxes in cash forced Africans to seek employment
• The Northey Circulars of 1918 and 1919 required chiefs to supply a number of labour recruits for settler farms and government projects.
• The government offered credit facilities to settlers to develop farming/extension of services e.g department of agriculture.
• Establishment of Agro-based industries created ready market for their produce.
• The government encouraged settlers to form co-operative for effective marketing of their produce.
• The development of transport and communication system facilitated farming 
• The government ensured protection to settlers against possible African rebellion.