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The Indian Forest Records Note on the Possibilities of Camphor Cultivation from Cinnamomum Camphora in Northern India

1923

The consequent destruction of the tree combined with the largely increasing demand brought home to the Japanese the value of their product and in 1899 they established a Government monopoly of the production and sale of camphor. [...] Puran Singh in various months with the idea of ascertaining the yield of camphor likely to be obtained per acre using the leaves as the source of camphor in place of the tree itself. [...] A careful consideration of the data available with regard to the propagation of the camphor tree and the yield of camphor and oil obtainable therefrom showed that it was somewhat scanty and iformation as to the yield of camphor and of oil from the leaves was very indefinite. [...] The main objects of the enquiry were to determine the total yield of leaf and camphor together with the number of flushes which might be taken per annum the percentage of camphor in the leaf and whether this percentage varied with the month of cutting the flush. [...] In calculating this the average camphor per cent has been obtained by merely taking the three yearly percentages and dividing by three and not by multiplying the weight of leaves by the percentage and dividing by the total weight as it is thought the former is the truer method.
agriculture environment
Pages
36
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.142308
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Frontmatter
i-iii S.H. Howard, W.A. Robertson, J.L. Simonsen view
Note on the Possibilities of Camphor Cultivation from Cinnamomum Camphora in Northern India
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