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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 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 [[right page]] 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