TRADE IN GINGKM.Y ACULEATA 



-ed about 400,000 cwt. The chief exporting centre*, coastwise, arc 



Minims un<l Bumkiv. .iml tin- < liu-f imp,,: 



thus \. TV -!!. iiii-iint thut Huriiiii. thnuyli i- ^le produgng 



Iniins an iinmul supply from Ii 



foreign Exports. In !.. Me itatistics the figure* are 



returned umirr two h.-a-ln,-- ih (Ml ami cJj Seeds. The quantitie* of 

 Sesamum On . rs 1902-7 were M follows : In 



I'.HU :;. _' 12,728 gallons, valued at 189 ; i, 



Dillons. vulu.-d ut Hs. 1.24.403; in lX)4-5, 547,456 gallon*, valued at 

 Rs. 7,22,158 ; in iyor>-. 308.310 gallons, valued at Rs. 4,44 

 1906-7, 165,877 gallons, vain.-,! at IK 2.79,644. Alino- -iolr 



quantity goes from Bombay, and thr chief marketa in recent year* have 

 been Mauritius. Arabia. Ade Ceylon. 



During the period 1900-7 the export* of SEED were : In 1900-1, Oil 

 1,844,194 cwt., valued at Re. 1,55,68,575 ; in iml 2. 2. 1 17. 149 cwt., " 

 valued at Rs. 2,14,39,368 ; in 1902-3, 3,732,685 cwt., valued at Rs. 

 2,90,93,614; in 1903-4, 3,512,650 cwt., valued at Rs.2,4: in 



1904-5, 2,516,757 cwt., valued at Rs. 1,73,71,691 ; in 1906-6, 1,686,208 

 cwt., valued at Rs. 1,46,93,032 ; and in 1906-7, 2,740,815 cwt., valued 

 at Rs. 2,53,79,919. It will thus be seen that a considerable fluctun 

 has taken place. Commenting on this subject, Novl-Paton (Rev. .Trade 

 ///.. 1905-6, 43) observes : 4i The shortage in rape-seed led to an 

 acute internal demand for sesamum and occasioned great embarrassment 

 to shippers ; and, since in this case also the favourable nature of the 

 crop prospects had led to depletion of available stocks, the exports, which 

 declined by 28 per cent, in 1904-5, underwent a furtli H of 



33 per cent., making a total of 52 per cent, in the two years. The average 

 value rose by 26-3 per cent." The condition mentioned was, howi 

 entirely changed by the recovery of the foreign transactions in the year 

 following. Bombay exports almost the entire quantity consigned from 

 India (in 1906-7 its share came to 2,366,144 cwt.), and the chief markets Ei 011 

 were : France, 1,060,589 cwt. ; Belgium, 862,117 cwt. ; Germany, 311,663 a***** 

 cwt. ; Austria-Hungary, 191,795 cwt. ; Italy, 158,316 cwt. ; Egypt, 110,515 

 cwt. ; and by way of contrast it may be added that the United Kingdom 

 took only 3 cwt., valued at Rs. 24. But, as already observed, while Burma BOHM. 

 is the largest single producing province, it exports practically no sesamum 

 seed. The production must be locally consumed, and hence to Burma this 

 is relatively a much more important product than it is to the people 

 of India. In Burma this oil doubtless plays very largely the part of ghi 

 in India. 



The imports of sesamum oil and seed are small and unimportant, 

 amounting, in 1906-7, to 384 gallons of oil and to 14,549 cwt. of seed, 

 chiefly derived from the Straits Settlements and Ceylon, and consigned to 

 Burma. 



According to a recent volume of Prices and Wages in India, the 

 wholesale price of sesamum seed in Calcutta in January of 1906 was 

 Rs. 5-10-6 per maund of 82'286 Ib. 



SESBANIA ACULEATA, IVrn. ; Fl Br. Ind., ii., 114 ; Prain, DJLR, 



Beng. Plants, 1903, i., 402-4 ; LEGUMINOS^E. The jayanti, brihat-cbakramed, Ij^! *** 

 dhanicha, dhunchi, gadoreji, rdn-shewd, bhuiavali, erra )Uuga, nyaek, 

 etc. A suffruticose annual met with often in a cultivated state on low- 



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