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The Board of Economic Enquiry Punjab. Publication No. 47. Economics of Lac Industry in the Punjab

1936

The industry is in the hands of illiterate persons and there is no organisation among the collectors or producers for the marketing of lac or for the standardisation of the quality produced. [...] The Punjab is among the Indian provinces of minor importance the production here being *for the explanation of the vernacular words used in this report the reader is referred to the glossary at the elid of the book. [...] During the shorter season the insects have greater vitality and the secretion continues right up to the time of swarming whereas in the longer season it stops almost a month earlier.* The common experience of the businessman outside the Punjab is that more lac comes to the market in summer than.in winter. [...] R. W. Aldi3 of the Lac Research Institute Ranchi explainwl that the death of the insects was due to suffocation consequent upon softening of the stick-lac and choking of the pores of the cells in which the insects are embedded end not as the direct result of heat."5 8. Trade Forms of Lac.---In a wider sense the term shellac ' includes any form of purified lac but actually it is in the form o [...] The former comprise the Siwalak range and the western slopes of the outer range of the Kangra hills enclosing the -Una Tahsil of the Hoshiarpur District while the iplains portion have an alluvial soil.
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Frontmatter
i-v J.W. Thomas view
Forward
vi-vii Ram Lal view
Preface
viii-ix J.W. Thomas view
Chapter I. Introduction
1-5 J.W. Thomas view
Chapter II. Lac Growing Areas And Distribution Of The Host Trees
6-9 J.W. Thomas view
Chapter III. Harvesting of Lac
10-17 J.W. Thomas view
Chapter Iv Organisation Of The Industry
18-20 J.W. Thomas view
Chapter V Marketing Of Stick—Lac
21-27 J.W. Thomas view
Chapter VI. Trade in Lac
28-32 J.W. Thomas view
Chapter VII. Manufacture of Shellac
33-46 J.W. Thomas view
Chapter VIII. Manufacture of Shellac
47-51 J.W. Thomas view
Appendices
52-71 J.W. Thomas view
Glossary of Terms
72-78 J.W. Thomas view

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