Cement - Ailuk
Pandanus

Season - Januarv,

September

February, March,

April, May,

Pandanus

June,

July,

August,

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Types

First pandanus season
beginning March-end
of May

Jablower
Kobarwa

Second pandanus season
beginning of Juneend of August

Lejokrer
Lokotwa
Lebo

T! ird pandanus season
beginning of Septemberend of November

Edmerma
Leomtur
Ailuk
Kemelij
Lemoen

Fourth pandanus season
seginning of Januarv“nd of March

Lekman
Lejmou
Liman
Mojel
Wottet
Nibun

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The information given by the Marshallese seems to show two seasons for
beth breadfruit and pandanus.
This is a widely accepted fact and tends to
support our own observations made during our extended stay on the islands in the

Marshalls.

According to the above figures, one would expect that the summer

season, which bears the largest crop and is the time when preserving is normally
done, begins around the second week of May and continues progressively until
July--the month when the preserving is traditionally done and continues on
into the second or third week of August.
The second or winter breadfruit crop
fails in December and January.

It should be noted that the pandanus season is markedly different in the
Northern Marshalls where due to lack of rain in the winter months, the summer
To some extent, this holds true for breadfruit
crop is normally much larger.
as well--the winter crop being much smaller.

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