Recent research indicates that the sago palm was an important food source for the ancient people of coastal China, in the period prior to the cultivation of rice.
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And for that we have to go deep into the forest to find the sago palm tree, " a housewife told The Jakarta Post at the Loes beach yesterday.
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Sago palms are harvested at the age of 7 15 years, just before or shortly after the inflorescence appears and when the stems are full of starch stored for use in reproduction.
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They also helped chop down large trees with a stone axe, made sago from the Sago Palm tree, and used its fibres to build a treehouse nearly 80 feet off the ground.
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The pith of the sago palm, although highly toxic to animals in its raw form, is an important human food source in Melanesia and Micronesia by virtue of its starch content and its availability.
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Flooding caused by the raised riverbed left a thick layer of contaminated mud on the flood plain where the plantations of taro, bananas and sago palm that are the staples of the local diet grow.
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Food converted to sweeteners and carbohydrates include the sago palm of Asia and Africa ( cooking oil ), the nipa palm of Asia ( sugar, vinegar, alcohol, and fodder ) and honey collection from mangroves.
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For the Bahinemo, the prizes are such food plants as the sago palm, whose starchy pulp is a staple; 60 medicinal plants; and the hardwoods they use to frame sturdy homes and make dugout canoes.
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Chua said : " The Ministry has to widen its scope of study to include traditional animal feed like sago palms, banana plants, coconut kernel, palm oil waste, water plants, small fish and shrimps and others.
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The Moluccans and Papuans acquire the starch by felling the trunk of a sago palm tree, cutting it in half, and scraping the soft inner parts of the trunk, the pith, producing a crude sago pith flour.
