COFFEA 



TOTAL TKAHK IN mm A NIT ARABICA 



k Coffee 



., valued at Rs. 56,00,268. Almost the whole trade is in the hands of 

 men -liMiits of the Madras ports, the receiving countries being the Unit-d 

 gdom and Germany. Madras Presidency also supplies the other vudrn. 

 provinces of India with coir and coir manufactures. These internal 

 i. -t ions were in 1905-6 valued at 15 lakhs of rupees. As already 

 indicated, coir cordage and rope cannot be ascertained separately from 

 hemp, but the total transactions for all India in 1905-6 were 139,870 owt., 

 valued at Rs. 15,21,131 ; almost three-fourths went from Madras ports, 

 and 1 ! 1 1- were in consequence chiefly coir (see Ropes and Cordage, p. 924). 

 The imports of coir are unimportant, and come mainly from Ceylon and 



insigned to Bengal. 



Copra and OIL The exports of copra to foreign countries in the five years Copra 

 )9-1900 to 1903-4 show a remarkable increase. They stood at 97,029 and OIL 

 b., valued at Rs. 9,89,377, in 1899-1900 ; arid reached 353,724 owt., valued 

 iRs. 42,24,614, in 1903-4; but fell to 126,454 owt., valued at Rs. 18,95,341, Erporte. 

 1906-7. Of this last amount 125,129 cwt., valued at Rs. 18,76,172, went 

 >m Madras ports. The chief recipients were France and Germany. The 

 stwise traffic in copra in 1905-6 amounted in all to 184,066 cwt., valued 

 Rs. 24,37,736. Bombay sent 47,218 cwt. chiefly to Sind, and Madras 

 t,546 cwt. chiefly to Bombay. The imports of copra from foreign imports, 

 in tries have been steadily diminishing and are now unimportant, 

 itistics of the trade in Indian cocoanut cake are not obtainable separately 

 >m those of other kinds of oilcake. The traffic in cocoanut oil to foreign 

 mtries in the five years 1899-1900 to 1903-4 increased from 2,245,502 

 valued at Rs. 27,79,669, in 1899-1900 to 3,379,631 gals., valued at 

 3. 48,81,588, in 1903-4 ; but the trade is subject to extreme fluctuations, 

 id fell in 1906-7 to 959,772 cwt., valued at Rs. 14,17,794. .The United Madras. 



igdom and United States are the best customers, and the trade is almost 

 itirely in the hands of Madras merchants. The imports, chiefly from 

 eylon and Mauritius, amounted to one million gals, in 1899-1900, but 

 only 999,556 gals, in 1906-7 and very largely from Ceylon. In the 

 t-mentioned year Bengal received 731,281 gals, and Madras 171,215 gals. 

 Nuts. The exports of whole cocoanuts to foreign countries, though Nuts, 

 till small, show a tendency to increase. In 1899-1900 the total stood 

 175,250 nuts, valued at Rs. 5,439 ; in 1902-3 it was 705,535 nuts, valued 

 Rs. 24,789 ; and in 1906-7, 365,890 nuts, valued at Rs. 13,853. Natal 

 Turkey-in-Asia are the chief receiving countries. The coastwise 

 iffic in nuts is very considerable. In 1905-6 the total for all provinces 



81,920,724 nuts," valued at Rs. 25,50,384. Madras is of course chiefly Madras, 

 sponsible, having exported to Bombay 61,862,664 nuts, valued at 

 18,95,327. The imports of nuts from foreign countries amounted in 

 ' -7 to 10,975,127 nuts, valued at Rs. 4,98,090, and these came chiefly 

 the Straits Settlements, the Maldives and Ceylon. Bengal took 

 )6,504 nuts, valued at Rs. 1,25,325, whilst Burma received 6,090,728 

 its, valued at Rs. 3,64,546. 



India has not as yet figured in the returns of the world's traffic in either Desiccated 

 siccated cocoanut or in cocoanut butter. Cocoanut. 



COFFEA ARABICA, Linn. ; De la Roque, Voy. Arab., 1708-10, D.E.P., 

 2 pi. ; Jussieu, Mem. de VAcad. des Scien., 1713 (repub. Hist. Coffee], 1715; ii., 460-91. 

 Ellis, Hist. Ace. Coffee, 1774 (admirable plate) ; Plenck, Ic. PL Med., 1789, Coffee, 

 pi. 130 ; Wight, Ic. PI. Ind. Or., 1840, i., t. 53 ; Richard, Tent. Fl. Abyss., 



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