This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...continued, Ceylon should now have yielded something over a million cwts. of plantation Coffee. The present yield is not half that amount. A recent island crop of Coffee was only 436,991 cwts., being less than that of any previous year since the disastrous year 1854, which is talked of in Ceylon very much as the year ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...continued, Ceylon should now have yielded something over a million cwts. of plantation Coffee. The present yield is not half that amount. A recent island crop of Coffee was only 436,991 cwts., being less than that of any previous year since the disastrous year 1854, which is talked of in Ceylon very much as the year after the Bombay Share mania is talked of here. The export of beans in 1881 was 219,674 cwts. less than 1880, and 361,344 cwts. less than the average export of the previous ten years. At the customs' rate of Rs. 50 per cwt. this would be an annual falling-off of Rs. 1,80,67,200. There are other reasons, unfortunately, in addition to the leaf disease to prevent the Ceylon planters taking a cheerful view of their position. The estates best suited to Coffee have been worked out. There is now no such soil left as when the districts of Pussellawa, Nilambe, Dumbara, Rangala, Hunasgiriya, and Kotmale were in their prime. For many years the planters kept up the quality of the soil by returning to it, in the form of artificial manures, some of the essential elements. They are too poor now to make any attempts of this kind. In 1877 the value of imported manures is given in the Custom-house returns at Rs. 26,14,019. In the returns of 1881 the value is only Rs. 3,75,883. Then, again, the area over which Coffee is now grown has been greatly extended. The Brazils alone produce more than half the total amount of Coffee consumed in the world, while Ceylon scarcely ranks for oneeighteenth of that quantity; and in the Brazils, as yet, the dreaded leaf-disease has not made its appearance much felt. New fields are being opened out every day. Java and Sumatra already produce more than twice the outturn of Ceylon. India is running it very close. Coffee planting is on...
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