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The Jesuits devoted much attention to its culture, and produced a valuable treatise on the subject calledl 'Arte Palmarica'. Cocoa-nuts form the principal export of Goa.... The Dublin Review By Nicholas Patrick Wiseman ...possessed of large landed estates, imparted some impluse to the cultivation of land, especially to the planting of cocoanut-trees, on which subject the latter have left an excellent treatise, entitled 'Arte Palmarica'... An Historical and Archæological Sketch of the City of Goa: Preceded by a ... By José Nicolau da Fonseca Amongst the works on natural history and agriculture written by the Portuguese in later centures, we have the 'Arte Palmarica'... atti del iv congresso internazionale degli orientalisti tenuto in firenze ... By firenze One Jesuit lay brother in Salsette authored the Arte Palmarica which recorded his research notes on the yields of different types of coconuts.... The Portuguese Empire, 1415-1808: A World on the Move - Page 155 by A. J. R. Russell-Wood - History - 1998 - 384 pages The Jesuits introduced the printing press in India and Japan. They excelled in the field of agriculture, expecially in coconut plantation (one Jesuit wrote on it a book 'Arte Palmarica') and mango-grafts... Welcome to Goa, Pope John Paul II. By Souvenir Committee http://www.mail-archive.com/goa...@lists.goanet.org/msg26280.html In the Central Library, Panjim (Goa), a book titled 'Arte Palmarica' explains the technique of growing more and better coco trees in a given space and the manner of growing them. The anonymous work is attributed to a Jesuit Brother who cultivated the farms entrusted to his care. The work and the knowledge implied seems to have made a big difference to the Portuguese coastal territories. An anonymous traveller voyaging along the west coast of India remarked that the stretches of land which had come under Portuguese rule at some time or other are marked with denser coco-tree-cultivation than other territories along the same coast. History of mathematical sciences: Portugal and East Asia II http://books.google.com/books?id=6IN3LdqmmfwC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false -- Frederick Noronha Books from Goa :: http://goa1556.goa-india.org