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[[left page]] cassava, corn, peanuts, ubi, tobacco & other dry crops [[notes on left margin]] BLUTO (oil-pressing) [[notes on left margin]] next stopped by another part of Bluto village to see the oil- pressing industry make both coconut & jarak oil jarak comes from a black seed (pod?) - oil is mixed with kapur and used as a couking material for prahus residue comes out of the press in form of a neat round cake - these 'empas' or residue cakes still have a high oil content & returns from their sale are almost as high as returns from sale of the oil itself ((later told of project to introduce mechanical press - project failed because residue didn't have enough oil content to be saleable as cake)) empas cake from parak oil is the main fertilizer for the important Madura tobacco crop, and may also be used as fertilizer for other lodong crops such as corn [[right page]] at house visited 5 wives were working 100 coconuts produce 4 liters of oil 1 team of 4 women can process 200 coconuts in 2 days, from husking to finished product - get 8 liters of oil which sells for 1050Rp a liter a liter = 8400 price of 300 coconuts is 8000 Rp so clear that that if only oil sold is scarcely any profit from 200 coconuts get 7 cakes of coconut empas cake which sold for animal feed (makananternak) sold for 150 a cake X 7 = 1050 thus entire return for 2 days is