....and how did Britain get involved?
2007-09-24 04:25:55 · 3 answers · asked by captbullshot 5 in Business & Finance ➔ Taxes ➔ United Kingdom
The Tanganyika Groundnut Scheme was a plan to cultivate tracts of what is now Tanzania with peanuts. It was a project of the British Labour government of Clement Attlee. It was abandoned at considerable cost to the taxpayers when it did not become profitable
2007-09-24 04:37:10 · answer #1 · answered by Wildman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An utter waste of Taxpayers money by a bunch of incompetents financed by an ignorant Government and (I'm sorry to say) EXACTLY what we get to this day whenever the Government gets involved in trying to dictate / direct / control ANYTHING of a 'commercial' nature ..
... in fact, the sort of madness (paying farmers NOT to grow food), chaos and corruption that is almost EXACTLY what the EU Common Agricultural Policy causes :-)
2007-09-24 13:54:57 · answer #2 · answered by Steve B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a chikd, I had bright yellow pullover made from the shells, called New Wool. How about thta
2013-11-29 08:15:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋