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for spice grinding) + nearby coastal salt fish industry - [?] fish apparently however is sold fresh [?] salted + the sat fish industry based on off-shore fishing
is however an interaction of overall [?] of villages we saw [?] the day

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(to be explained below) 
-tambak fish sold to bakuls
-fry for tambak fish is sea + captured fry
-no interm. techn. or hand equipm for salt processing
-diesal pump 400,000. 500,000 + only a few owners of ladang garam can afford
-are three way an owner of a lading garam can work. [?]
1. [?] [?] garam in crew of 4 per hectare to farm it (do this if wealthy)
2. Maro the lading - also uses 4 workers but share divided thus
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3. rent out the ladang to another
- land used for salt farming is ruined for regular farming
- total no. of [?] [?] in salt ind. in 6 [?] = 3700 person
- wages for [?] garam 200 - 300 a day
- sometimes the fish in the tambaks are fed, but mainly eat algae in the water - some tambak farmers now adding urea to promote algae growth
- in answer to a question as to whether any pesticide pollution of tambaks from rice fields to south said no because tambak water from sea water