Coconut is one of the traditional, prominent perennial Crops associated with
heritage, culture and Economy of India for the last 3000 years. It is preferred
and cultivated by all the categories of farmers irrespective of their land
holding and economic and social status. Moreover coconut is closely coupled with
the daily foodstuff of millions of people around the world. Amidst huge
production and demand, coconut suffers with the bottlenecks of low Level of
production technology, high degree of pest and disease, land fragmentation,
obsolete Irrigation system, conventional harvesting, Poor value addition
facilities, underprivileged institutional arrangements in marketing,
unstabilized price, lack of proper financing Institutions etc.
This current Edition traces