Taking a decade to mature,sagopalms require much less cultivation than fruit trees (or rice).
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The locality is at an altitude of about 610 m and surrounded bysagoswamps.
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By using 'tree fern' to refer tosagostarch, he added further pejorative force to his comment.
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There is culture-internal unease about the edibility ofsagogrubs, and this unease is compensated through protesting a great deal about earthworms.
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Twice the larvae were found in beached canoes and once in asago-tree-swamp.
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The man was reporting that the feast hosts served onlysagostarch, even though beetle larvae are the normal, expected, and prestigious feast food.
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That is why a surcharge was imposed onsagoflour.
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There are alternatives to rice—sago, tapioca and farina.
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Whether rice pudding, tapioca, ground rice orsago, it is always there—not very exciting, not very often chosen, but always there.
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It is hoped that imports ofsagowill be resumed in the course of the next few weeks.
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There are no separate figures ofsagoflour imports for prewar years in the trade returns.
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Then there aresago, tapioca,sagoflour, and bananas which are enormously important.
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Take corn and grain—corn and flour, corn fodder and oil cake, malt, rice,sago, tapioca, macaroni, beans, peas, and lentils.
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Ordinary articles of food which are entirely imported are rice, tapioca,sago, sugar, bananas, oranges, cocoa, coffee, and tea.
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These are mainly foods such as tea, coffee, cocoa, potatoes; butter and cooking fat; dried fruits; and a range of farinaceous products such as flour, rice,sagoand tapioca.
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