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Economy: agriculture Bananas, tubers (ubi), vegetables, fish, and coconuts have always been available in great quantities. In the past these products were the main sources of food and trade. In fact, in the nineteenth-century the Buginese traders seemed to have been attracted to Enggano by the large quantities of coconuts [20]. Most Engganese have their own gardens somewhere in the bush, changing their locations after some time (swidden cultivation). Immigrants follow the same pattern, so with a growing number of people the pressure on the ground will increase. During the 1994 field-work immigrants from Java and Sumatra were burning the forest close to Banjarsari.
Since the 1960s, owing to the arrival of a large number of immigrants, there have been a number of wet rice on Enggano. Local Engganese also make use of these fields. | |
