Coconut

Coconut

Subject : Geography

Section :Economic geography

Context: Coconut Development Board, in association with International Coconut Community (ICC), is organizing the two-day International Conference on Trade and Marketing of Coconut Products, in Hyderabad.

Concept:

• Ranking in production: India is the largest coconut producing country in the world, with 30.93% share of global production, followed by Indonesia and Philippines. India ranks second in terms of productivity
• Distribution: Traditional areas of coconut in India are the states of Kerala, Tamilnadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, Goa, West Bengal, Pondicherry, Maharashtra and Islands of Lakshadweep and Andaman and Nicobar. However, several states like Assam, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Tripura, Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh have emerged as non-traditional areas for the cultivation of coconut.
• Climatic Conditions: tropical plant but has been found to grow under varying agro climatic conditions.
• Temperature and rainfall: mean annual temperature of around 270C , evenly distributed annual rainfall ranging from 100 cm to 300 cm.
• Altitude:600 m above sea level.
• Soil types : laterite, alluvial and coastal sandy soils.

Coconut Development Board

• Coconut Development Board (CDB) is a statutory body established under the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, for the integrated development of coconut cultivation and industry with focus on productivity increase and product diversification.
• Headquarters: Kochi in Kerala
• Regional Offices at Bangalore, Chennai, Guwahati and Patna.
• State Centres: Pitapally in Odissa, Kolkata, Thane, Vijayawadah and Port Blair.
• Market Development cum Information Centre:
• Technology Development Centre: Vazhakulam near Aluva in Kerala and a Field office at Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala.

FUNCTIONS OF THE BOARD

• Adopting measures for the development of coconut industry, inter alia.
• Imparting technical advice to those engaged in coconut cultivation and industry.
• Providing financial and other assistance for the expansion of area under coconut.
• Encouraging adoption of modern technologies for processing of coconut and its products.
• Adopting measures to get incentive prices for coconut and its products.
• Recommending measures for improving marketing of coconut and its products.
• Recommending measures for regulating imports and exports of coconut and its products.
• Fixing grades, specifications and standards for coconut and its products.
• Financing suitable schemes to increase the production of coconut and to improve the quality and yield of coconut.
• Assisting, encouraging, promoting and financing agricultural, technological, industrial or economic research on coconut and its products.
• Collecting statistics on coconut and its products and publishing them.
• Undertaking publicity activities and publishing books and periodicals on coconut and its products.