RICE. 



297 



QUANTITY OF PADDY AND RICE EXPORTED FROM AK.YAB, THE PORT OP 

 ARRACAN. 



(" Colonial Magazine," vol. vi., p. 348.) 



EXPORT OF RICE FROM MOULMEIN. 



1840 

 1841 

 1842 

 1843 



1844 

 1845 



1846 



67,218 

 11,175 

 64,055 

 35,635 



71,822 

 149,815 

 193,267 

 (Simmonds's " Colon al Magaz ne," vol. xii., p. 462.) 



Value. 



38,708 



6,900 



40,034 



35,289 



44,529 



73,034 



101,465 



Prom Tavoy and Mergui rice was also exported, equal in value 

 to 41,000 rupees, in 1846 ; 100 baskets of 12 seers each, are equal 

 to 30 Bengal maunds. The basket of rice named above, is equal 

 to 55 J Ibs. English. V- 



Paddy means rice in the husk rice, the grain when unhusked 

 a distinction to be kept in mind. 



The daily average consumption of rice in a family of five, is 

 rated in the Straits' settlements at three and a quarter chupahs. 



The Burmese and Siamese are the grossest consumers of rice. 

 A common laboring Malay requires monthly 30 chupahs, or 56 

 pounds of rice, value 3s. 9d. or 4s. The Burmese and Siamese 

 about 34 chupahs, or 64 pounds. Hice land in Penang yields a 

 return which cannot be averaged higher than seventy-five fold 

 or nearly thirty guntangs of paddy for each orlong (li acres) ; 

 but it has been considered advisable to rate it here at sixty 

 fold only. 



The rice land of Province Wellesley gives an average 

 return of 117^ fold ; the maximum degree of productiveness 

 being 600 guntangs of paddy to an orlong of well flooded, alluvial 

 land, or 150 fold, equal to 300 guntangs of clean rice, weighing 

 nearly 4,520 English pounds. The present average produce has 



