Red coconut fruit 2-2.5 years after planting. Products are mainly drinking water, supply of raw materials produced handicrafts and processing technology.
PRODUCT INFORMATION
Scientific name: Cocos nucifera
Application:
- Fresh coconut as other beverages and health training for: Coconut sugar glucose, fructose and sucrose. Rich in proteins. Many vitamin C, B1, and minerals. Coconut water can be prepared using tissue culture medium. Join the processing of canned food or help the long-term storage, improve product value. Supply coconut is naturally fragrant beverages, nutritious and purest.
- Provide materials to produce high-end cosmetics and medicinal herbs fostering healing and beauty.
- Copra oil, bakery confectionery, products used as animal feed or fertilizer.
- Grated coconut as coconut jelly, dried exports are stable, have high economic efficiency.
- Train leaves for fuel, to make the old woody, making appliances ... take preliminary husks carpet, sound proofing materials, inlay, fertilizer. Coconut shell activated charcoal for odor processing and used in medicine for healing. The artist has composed hundreds of arts and crafts products to serve the needs of society.
Product Features:
- Coconut trees are grown in the central province of Ca Mau long run, the far end of the island. Coastal areas many species of fruit trees can not grow, fragrant coconut trees still lush.
- Preferred porous soil structure, nutrient digestion of high quality, not too alkaline soil with a pH of 4.8 or higher is possible to grow well. On degraded lands to provide organic fertilizer for coconut trees to achieve productivity and quality.
- Plants grow at altitudes below 600m. Rainfall in 1200, evenly distributed, with 75% humidity needs.
- Plants tolerant to drought, flooding, salinity and good wind protection.
SOCIO-ECONOMIC BENEFITS
Economic efficiency is very high:
- Coconut trees are trees can bring high economic efficiency and long-term, approximately 25-30 years. 26 day average harvest 1.
- Less use of fertilizers and plant protection products to reduce investment costs.
- Can intercropping other crops such as citrus fruits, cocoa ... to exploit more effectively the farming unit.
Social Benefits
- Create more jobs, more use of labor exploitation chain involved coconut products (planting, tending, harvesting, processing, consumption, ...).
- To contribute to poverty alleviation, increasing income for local residents. The parts of the coconut tree to generate income.
Creating habitat and environmental protection
- With thousands of clinging roots into the ground to help prevent erosion of coastal land areas, or rivers are ideal. As good windbreak, thunderstorms still endure.
- The palm tree shaped morphology characteristic landscape should be planted very nice.
- Dwarf coconut tree is also important place in the strategy of environmental protection, rural economic development, eco-tourism ...
