HICE. 



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QUANTITY OF PADDY AXD KICE EXPORTED FflOM AK.YAB, THE PORT OF 

 ARRACAX. 





Maunds 

 of paddy. 



Maunds of 

 rice. 



Total value 

 Kupees. 



Average price j 

 of 12 seers, 



Eice. 



er 100 baskets 

 in Rupees. 



Paddy. 



1831-32 



380,600 



28,970 



130.591 



15-4 to 16-6 



8 



to 9 



1832-33 



502,740 



175,560 



232,915 



16 



17 



7-5 



8 



1833-34 



555, 540 



418,950 



430,830 



19 



20 



9 



10 



1834-35 



127,050 



260,650 



176,717 



18 



.19 



8 



9 



1835-36 



783,870 



548,460 



354,791 



10 



11 



5 



5-8 



1836-37 



1,737,841 



641,010 



666,732 



10-8 



12 



5 



6 



1837-38 



1,621,566 



248,783 



650,385 



21 



23 



9 



10-8 



1838-39 



1,364,100 



332,380 



821,168 



24 



25-1 



8-8 



1112 



1839-40 



2,033,698 



529,961 



1,121,311 



21-8 



23 



9-8 



10 



1840-41 



2,212,068 



446,941 



1,131,087 



20 



21-8 



10 



11 



1841-42 



1,265,388 



270,000 



553,014 



19 



20 



8 



9 



1842-43 



1,310,900 



393,900 



472,889 



14 



15 



7-8 



8 



1843-44 



848,922 



707,780 



633,710 



17 



18 



7 



8 



— (" Coloiiial Magazine," yol. vi., p. 348.) 



EXPORT OF RICE FROM MOULMEIX. 



Baskets. Value. 



1840 . . 67,218 . . 38,708 



1841 . . 11,175 . . 6,900 



1842 . . 64,055 . . 40,034 



1843 . . 35,635 . . 35,289 



1844 . . 71,822 . . 44,529 



1845 . . 149,815 . . 73,034 



1846 . . 193,267 . . 101,465 



-(Siinmoncls'3 " Colonial Magazine," vol. xii., p. 482.) 



Erom Tavoy and Mergui rice Avas 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 lbs. English. 



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 43. The Burmese and Siamese 

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

 return vrhich cannot be averaged higher than seventy-five fold — 

 or nearly thirty guntangs of paddy for each orlong (1^ 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 



