Acknowledgements -- 1. The material -- 1.1 Origin of this publication -- 1.2 Objectives -- 1.3 Vegetable exports -- 1.4 Types of commercial crop farm -- 1.5 Arrangement of this publication -- 2 The development of export crops -- 2.1 The export of agricultural products throughout the ages -- 2.2 Development by period -- 2.3 The Company period -- 2.4 The period of varying policy -- 2.5 The ‘Cultuurstelsel’ (Compulsory Cultivation Scheme) -- 2.6 The rise of plantation industry; the development of exports from small holdings -- 2.7 Expansion and depression -- 3 Land rights -- 3.1 Arrangement of statistics according to legal title to land holdings -- 3.2 Export crops of smallholders -- 3.3 Agriculture on high authority -- 3.4 Estates -- 3.5 Distribution of estate land according to title -- 3.6 Use of land in Java and Madura compared with estate holdings -- 3.7 The actual use of estate land -- 4 The sources and the reliability of the statistics -- 4.1 The backbone of this work -- 4.2 ‘Koloniale Verslagen’ (Colonial Reports) -- 4.3 ‘Jaarcijfers voor het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden. Kolonien’ (Annual Statistical Abstracts for the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Colonies) -- 4.4 ‘De Landbouwexportgewassen van Nederlandsch-Indië’ (Export Crops in Indonesia) -- 4.5 Other sources -- 4.6 Reliability of the statistics -- 5 General remarks on the tables -- 5.1 Presentation of data -- 5.2 Commentary on the individual tables -- 5.3 Explanation of symbols -- Tables and commentary on the figures -- 1 Vegetable products as a proportion of total exports -- 2 Export of agricultural products from estates and smallholders in Java and Madura and the Other Islands (1894-1940) -- 3 The export of each individual agricultural product from Java and Madura and the Other Islands in 1927 and 1938 -- 4 The output of five important crops according to type of industry (1840-1890) -- 5 The output of seven important Indonesian export crops-Summary -- 6 Estates grouped according to the title of the holdings -- 7 Cane sugar -- 8 Tea -- 9 Cinchona -- 10 Rubber -- 11 Oil palms -- 12 Coffee -- 13 Tobacco -- 14 Coconut products -- 15 Cycle of inter-island trade in coconut products -- 16 Pepper, maize and cassava products -- 17 Indigo -- Graphs -- I Agricultural products as a proportion of total exports, according to value -- II Development of Indonesian export crops, according to the producers; share in the production of coffee, sugar, tea, tobacco and cinchona (1834-1890) -- III Development of Indonesian agricultural exports, according to the producers; share in the value of the exports (1894-1940) -- IV Output of seven important export crops.