gingelly-oil

Updated: May 21, 2025

So fully aware are the natives of the impossibility of getting more than one crop out of the land that they plant all that they require at the same time. The principal articles of native cultivation are rice, korrakan, Indian corn, betel, areca-nuts, pumpkins, onions, garlic, gingelly-oil seed, tobacco, millet, red peppers, curry seed and sweet potatoes.

Sir Samuel White Baker - Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon