On a coconut trail

No gas? Try coconut oil

Fig in coconut sauce

Climbers on call

Trained to climb palms, they revive Kerala’s coconut industry

Coir better than synthetics for making geo-grids

South Asia

On a coconut trail

Fascinated by a more than liberal use of coconut in south Indian cuisine, Hoinhnu Hauzel sets off on a journey to find out what is so special …

Back to nature

Coconut disease

Tissue-culture technology facilitates to hike yeild of tasty coconut

The tasty, popular coconut species of Thailand, kati, could not be produced in large scale because it is infertile. But scientists have now found …

World Coconut Day: A wonder fruit that has nurtured humanity

Coconut flesh, water, oil and milk are widely consumed across the tropical coasts of the world

Coconut cousins

DNA analysis shows coconuts have two different origins

Islander's doom

Long lives the drink

New technology facilitates commercialisation of coconut water

Coconut cracker

The eriophyid mite has a field day, while officials sleep tight. The pest attack was first reported in 2000, when a farmer from the Puri …

Disease-resistant coconut

Goa farmers' body hails declassification of coconut as 'tree', demands coconut museum

Cites a number of reasons as to why the ruling is helpful to coconut farmers

Natural pesticides

More than just a drink

The catcher in the gene

Evidence finally links phytoplasmas to root wilt disease in coconut trees

Coconut courier service

The economy of a village is built around coconuts—delivered free to a shrine via buses

Fruits of doing nothing

Two young farmers of Karnataka prosper by overcoming tiller instinct  

Sri Lanka firm accuses foreign company of stealing technology

THAILAND

High on nectar

Demand for neera, the fresh sap of young coconut flowers, is rising with advances in food preservation technologies. It's time Kerala stopped …