The Centre has come up with a price support scheme to procure 50,000 tonnes of milling copra from Kerala during the 2023 season. The State Government can decide the procurement date, but it should ...

For too long, the wonder tree that is the coconut tree has been seen mainly as the source of copra from which crude coconut oil (CNO) is extracted, the source of a commodity that has not significantly ...

The district panchayat, in association with the Kerafed, is launching a copra procession unit at the State Coconut Nursery complex in Karunagapally. District panchayat secretary K. Anil Kumar said the ...

Coconut, as I wrote last week, need not be the “lazy man’s crop” if we move farmers away from the traditional product mainly derived from it, namely, smoke-dried copra for processing into coconut oil.

The Union Cabinet on Friday approved a minimum support price (MSP) for copra or dried coconut kernel of ₹12,100 per quintal (100 kg), applicable for 2025. Cabinet approves MSP at ₹12,100 per quintal ...