The Tobacco Monopoly In Sirisia: Bureaucratic Enterprise And Economic Change, 1975-2005
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International Journal of Arts and Humanities
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The study investigated the impact of tobacco on the economy and society in Sirisia, Bungoma
County using the concepts of innovation, adaptation and commercialization. The study applied
these concepts to explain how the tobacco scheme was built upon a repressive and sustained
work regime among peasants at the expense of other agricultural pursuits.The paper holds that
although peasant economy in Sirisia was self-sustaining, the introduction of commercial tobacco
cultivation from 1975 completely alterd this set-up. The study was based on archival research,
oral interviews as well as analysing literature on tobacco plant and its history.
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Ndalilah Joseph, W., Makana, N. E., & Tanui, P. THE TOBACCO MONOPOLY IN SIRISIA: BUREAUCRATIC ENTERPRISE AND ECONOMIC CHANGE, 1975-2005.