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when the fruits are roughly handled. Storing is done at the 
plantations only when buyers are few during the main harvest, 
and when the fruits are used for local consumption. 
The fruits are stored in a dry place, such as bamboo-strip 
baskets, which are placed on rafters under a nipa-palm roof 
of a house or a specially constructed storage room. The bamboo 
baskets are usually about 45 to 60 centimeters in diameter and 
60 centimeters deep. A typical storage room is a bamboo house 
with a nipa roof, the floor space being 2.5 by 3.5 meters and the 
sides about 3 meters high to the eaves. It is boarded up on 
two sides and the other two sides are made of woven bamboo 
strips to allow for plenty of ventilation. No special precau- 
tions are taken in storing; the fruits are merely piled on the 
floor in a large heap. Partition boards may be used to separate 
the different grades. 
MARKETING 
Before the fruit is offered for sale it is graded, according 
to size, degree of cankeredness, and seediness. The grading 
as to the first two qualities may or may not be strict, and depends 
primarily on the buyer. In the November harvest an attempt is 
made to separate the fruits with seeds from those without. This 
is rather difficult, but some growers claim they can distinguish 
between these qualities. Fruits that are cankered do not neces- 
sarily sell at lower prices, because of the scarcity of this par- 
ticular variety. This is especially apparent during the Chinese 
New Year, when the demand is great. 
The fruit is most often carried to market in small native 
canoes or boats; middlemen come direct to the plantation to 
buy, and they then transport the fruit to market for sale. The 
selling price at the plantation varies according to the season. 
During the large harvest in November the first-grade fruit sells 
for from 12 to 15 ticals a hundred (5 to 7 dollars United States 
currency), and the second grade for from 4 to 5 ticals a hundred 
(1.75 to 2 dollars). At this time the fruit is apt to be seedy. 
At other seasons, as in June, it sells for from 20 to 25 ticals a 
hundred (8 to 10 dollars). The price of the seedless fruit pro- 
duced in the off seasons is, therefore, 8 to 10 ticals a hundred, 
or more than that of the seeded. When the fruits are scarce, 
as in June, the Nakorn Chaisri seedless pummelo may sell on the 
Bangkok market at the rate of two fruits for 1 tical. The 
superior quality is recognized by the people, and they pay a 
