Abstract
IT is tolerably well known that lac is a resinous substance secreted by a scale insect (family Coccidae) known as Laccifer lacca (Kerr.). The production of lac is virtually a monopoly of India and Burma. The greater amount of lac is produced in Bihar: outside India, lac is grown in small quantities in Ceylon, Java, Borneo, Malay States, Siam, China and Indo-China.
Lac Cultivation in India
Being a second and revised edition of “A Practical Manual of Lac Cultivation”. By P. M. Glover. Pp. vii + 147 + 25 plates. (Namkum: Indian Lac Research Institute, 1937.) 2 rupees.
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I., A. Lac Cultivation in India. Nature 143, 454 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143454c0
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