Context: In the period before German colonisation, Samoa produced mostly copra. German merchants and settlers were active in introducing large scale plantation operations and developing new industries, notably cocoa bean and rubber, relying on imported labourers from China and Melanesia. When the value of natural rubber fell drastically, about the end of the Great War (World War I), the New Zealand government encouraged the production of bananas, for which there is a large market in New Zealand.[citation needed]

Question: What was Samoa's major production product before the Germans arrived?
Answer: copra

Question: What product significantly dropped in price at the end of World War I?
Answer: natural rubber

Question: What did Samoa start growing more of to make up for the lost value of rubber?
Answer: bananas

Question: Which country's government wanted Samoa to grow bananas for them?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: Besides Melanesia, which country sent many workers for the cocoa and rubber plantations in Samoa?
Answer: China

Question: What did China produce before Melanesian colonization?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What new industries were produced by China in Somoa?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What happened when the price of cocoa beans fell?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What is there a large market for in Melanesia?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What groups were developing new industries and plantations in Melanesia?
Answer: Unanswerable