2 9 6 



Some idea of the local importance of this industry may be 

 gathered when I mention, taking an average of 40 nuts per tree 

 (a very reliable return when the trees have reached maturity) 

 that if the whole of the yield of the above acreage were converted 

 into copra it would be capable of producing 800,000 pikuls; b 

 say nothing of the large and very valuable stock of fibre that 

 would be available for the manufacture of coir matting, rope, etc. 

 Copra is at present fetching nearly $11 per pikul, and owing to 

 its strong statistical position the price is more likely to rise than 

 otherwise. 



I now refer to the States in regular order. 



Anson (Lower Perak). Kuala Kangsar (Upper Perak). Rw 



Serai , Knan, Selinsing and Selama), Hutu Gajah (Kinta), an< 



Matang (Matang and Larut), respectively. 



Cultivation.— The total area under coconuts in the Statea 



the end of 1906 I estimate approximately at 53,395 acres< th c 



district of Lower Perak alone contributing nearly 30,000 acre. 



rh< se figures show an increase of 2,695 acres over the precedin; 



year, made up from the various districts as follows :— 



Lower Perak 347 acres. 



Kuala Kangsar (Upper Perak) ... 155 » 

 Krian, Selinsing and Selama ... 1.750 » 



Beetle Pests.— The damage done bv these insert- WW 

 the year throughout the State was practically insign^ 

 Kmta was quite free from the pest, and the . .nly trouhle • ; 

 at Lower Perak was at Pasir Blanda, afterwards referred 

 At Kuala Kangsar about 120 trees had to be treated *** 

 Matang about 472 beetles were destroved. In the Knai bp. 

 the catches were heavier, the attacks being almost enuw 

 u**!*? r ta the Chinese ^gar estates. One thousand 1 

 hundred of the black beetles weVe collected and 201 of the 

 beetles. 



Lower Perak.— -The Sub-Inspector has continued ^ 

 some useful work. The coconut plantations owned b> tru ., 

 are in better condition tKo« :« nn-vimis vear. As a \ . : 



