On a coconut trail

Climbers on call

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

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  

Coconut capital

Toddy tappers in Kerala fought off social stigma and repression only to fight new demons like the government's excise policy

Assam on a platter

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 …

No gas? Try coconut oil

Fig in coconut sauce

Coir better than synthetics for making geo-grids

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 …

South Asia

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 …

Back to nature

Coconut disease

Coconut cousins

DNA analysis shows coconuts have two different origins

Islander's doom

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 …

Long lives the drink

New technology facilitates commercialisation of coconut water

Disease-resistant coconut

Natural pesticides

More than just a drink

The catcher in the gene

Evidence finally links phytoplasmas to root wilt disease in coconut trees

Sri Lanka firm accuses foreign company of stealing technology

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