QUANTITY OF PADDY AND RICE EXPORTED FROM AKYAB, THE PORT OF ARRACAN.
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|         |       |         |Average price per 100 baskets
|         |       |  Total  |   of 12 seers, in Rupees
|Maunds of|Maunds |  value  +------------------+---------------
|  Paddy  |of rice| Rupees  |     Rice         |     Paddy
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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    11.12
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
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(” Colonial Magazine,” vol. vi., p. 348.)

EXPORT OF RICE FROM MOULMEIN

Baskets           Value
1840           67,318           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

—­(Simmonds’s “Colonial Magazine,” vol. xii., p. 462.)

From 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 551/2 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 4s.  The Burmese and Siamese about 34 chupahs, or 64 pounds.  Rice land in Penang yields a return which cannot be averaged higher than seventy-five fold—­or nearly thirty guntangs of paddy for each orlong (1-1/3 acres); but it has been considered advisable to rate it here at sixty fold only.