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Importance Of Coconut Agriculture

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considerable impact on the income of a farmer. They could not sometimes get the amount put in to grow or cultivate any types of crop. There is no chance for reimbursement of the amount lost by the farmers due to the crop failures or low yielding from the crops. The harvesting period for the crops cultivated varies from crop to crop. Most of the crops are harvested within 4 months; few crops take 6 months for yielding. Banana, consume at least 1 year for yielding and harvesting. The farmers who involved in coconut cultivation have to wait more than 5 years to get income from the crops. Up to harvesting of coconut the farmers are in a position to invest huge amount in the crops and also to manage their family. Crop failure and fall in price …show more content…

Rajkumar and R. Thamil Selvan in their study entitled “Importance of Coconut Cultivation” pointed out the significance of coconut as a source of edible oil and as an agro-based raw material for many industries such as manufacture of shell powder, and handicrafts. Fermented coconut toddy is an intoxicant used widely in the west coast of India. Vinegar and jaggery are important by – products of coconut toddy. The tree trunk is used as a building material and for making furniture. Fifty percent of the total coconut production is converted into copra. Coconut crop is raised in India under varying soil and climatic conditions in 17 states and 3 Union Territories. As the coconut tree is versatile in its adaptability to wide range of soil conditions, coconut cultivation has begun to spread from the west coast of India to interior regions of Tamil Nadu especially to Erode District and Thanjavur District. In an indepth study of coconut development in India, Sugata Ghose traces the different stages of coconut development. Expansion of European soap and edible oil companies offered great opportunity to India to export copra in the latter half of the 19th century. Steady increase in export trade enhanced the pace of coconut development. On the eve of the First World War, India was one of the leading exporters of copra, the annual quantum of export being 30 tonnes of copra and 10,000 tonnes of coconut

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