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cassava, corn, peanuts, ubi,
tobacco &other dry crops

[[notes on left margin]] BLUTO (oil-pressing)
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next stopped by another part of
Bluto village to see oil-
pressing industry
make both coconut & jarak
oil
jarak comes from a black seed
([pd?) - oil is mixed with
kapur & used as a couking
material for prahus
residue comes out of the press
in the form of a neat round
cake - These 'empas' or residue
cakes still have a high oil
content & returns from their
sale
make the difference
between profit & no product in
the industry ((later told of a
project to introduce mechanized
press which failed because residue
didn't have enough oil content to be
saleable as cake))
empas cake from jarak oil is the
main fertilizer for the important
Madura tobacco crop, and may
also be used as fertilizer for other

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ladang rops such as corn
at house we visited were 5
wives working - apparently one
was wife of owner of the house &
4 were paid workers from other
HH's
1 team of 4 women can process
200 cocnuts in 2 das, from
husking to finished product -
get 8 liters oil from 200 coconuts
- oil sells for 1050 Rp a liter

1050
  X8
-----
8400

purchase price of 200 coconuts
is 8000 Rp so clear that if
only oil sold is scarcely any
profit
from 200 cocnuts get 7 cakes of
coconut empas cakes which are
sold for animal feed (makanan
template)
sold for 150Rp a cake X 7 =
1050
thus entire return for 2 days
is

 8400
X1050
-----
 9450Rp