This volume includes a range of government reports related to natural resources in Uganda dated between 1903 to 1961. In the years following the second world war, the Uganda Government embarked upon a policy of the intensive development of the Protectorate's economic resources through the medium of quasi-government boards. This policy reached its climax with the establishment in 1952 of the Uganda Development Corporation under the Uganda Development Corporation Act passed in that year. The purpose of the corporation was to participate in the industrial and economic development of the Protectorate by promoting and assisting in the financing, management or establishment of new undertakings and schemes for the better organisation, management or efficient carrying out of existing undertakings. It was also responsible for the conduct of research into the industrial, mineral and agricultural potentialities of the country. The Electricity Board was established in 1948 to manage and direct the generation and distribution of electric power in Uganda. The board had a statutory monopoly for supplying public demand for electricity. Uganda’s two major export crops, cotton and robusta coffee, were marketed through two statutory boards - the Lint Marketing Board and the Coffee Industry (or Marketing) Board. The Lint Marketing Board was established by the Lint Marketing Board Ordinance of 1949, whilst the Coffee Industry Board was established by the Coffee Industry Ordinance of 1953.