Author: CONNELL, MELVILLE,.
Title: Report on the Sarawak Illipe Nut Trade. A Post-Harvest Study. [Original edition].
Description: Slouigh, Ministry of Overseas Development, July, 1968. Small folio. Original limp wrappers, stapled. 93pp. of cyclostyled text. Monochrome figures and diagrams on plates, sketch-map of Sarawak, numerous comparative tables, appendix, literature references, other reference literature, preface, printed marginalia, table of contents. Detailed scholarly report in which a commercial plan is introduced in order tro rationalize growth and cropping of the Sarawak Illipe 'Nut' (Shorea macrophylla (de Vr.)Ashton) supported by extensive statistical data. Includes a gemeral description of the commodity, main collecting areas, local consumption, collection of the crop, the function of up-river dealers, Buyers, buying and quality, Insect infectations by Storage, transportation within Sarawak, Export quality control, administration of export, recommendations, etc. Very good copy.

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