Coconut situation in Vietnam and Ben Tre
Vietnam coconut industry in the structure of agriculture in general, has been formed and developed long. As one of the 10 countries with the largest coconut area in the world, with an area of approximately 1% total area of coconut, Vietnam is a country with a large number of coconut, coconut plantation often dispersed, scattered across several provinces. Only two of the coconut can focus areas for raw materials coconut processing industry is Tam Quan - Binh Dinh in the central coastal province of Ben Tre and in the Mekong Delta.
Ben Tre is an agricultural provinces of the Mekong Delta, located on the estuary delta Tien Giang, formation and development on three major islands of Cu Lao An Hoa, Cu Lao Bao and Ming isle. Ben Tre coconut local area's largest and most concentrated than the nation.
35% of the total area of the country coconut. Ben Tre serve as the nucleus of coconut processing industry Vietnam today
Application of coconut today
Coconut has many applications in life, products made from coconut such as copra, raw coconut oil, virgin coconut oil, cheese, coconut jelly .... Coconut fiber and coco peat is also a important part of high added value in the value chain
Coconut. Coconut fiber (30% by weight of coconut shell) is used to make coconut fiber, coconut fiber carpets, cushions coconut fiber, coconut fiber net, activated carbon, and many other applications. Coco peat, by-products
during coconut fiber from coconut shell cups (about 70% by weight of coconut shell), is used as the substrate for plants, clean soil as fertilizer, and is used in many modern farms, crops landscape, tree planting in the greenhouse.
The properties of coconut fiber
According to TAPPI (1988), coconut fiber and organic matter can be reused. coconut fiber is the pH of 5.5. matter
amount of coconut fiber is not affected if the pH is lower. coconut fiber has a number of properties and the
chemical composition follows:
The ratio C: N of 80: 1.
10-12% porosity.
Organic matter: 9.4 to 9.8%.
Total ash: 3-6%.
Cellulose: 20-30%.
Lignin: 60-70%
Tanin: 8.0 to 8.5% (of the type pyrocatechic-tannin no hydrolysis).
EC (dS / m) 0.8.
N 0.5%.
P 0.3%.
0.4 K%.
