Sugar from "coconut nectar"
Currently, only in Ben Tre has left tens of millions in outstanding coconut farmers, coconut prices are miserably low, where only 20.000- 25.000 VND / dozen (12 left). At the young coconut (easy climbing), in addition to selling fresh coconut beverage making, growers can use sugar processing techniques from "coconut nectar" to temporarily overcome this difficult time.
Called "coconut nectar" is because it is a liquid derived from corn coconut flower (also known as "sheath"). This solution has 14% sugar (coconut sugar is about 4%). Worldwide, sugar made from "coconut nectar" appears long, sweet sugars, but not sweet like sugar made from sugar cane or palm but the scent. According to the successful testing of the engineer Nguyen Thi Thuy, director of the Center for Experiments in Luong Hoa Dong Go (Giong Trom, Ben Tre) is on a corn flower of the coconut palm tree planted in the center can open falls continuously for a month and gained at least 30 liters of honey. Just 6 liters of honey in cooking will produce 1kg of sugar, which cost about 40,000 VND / kg (the price of sugar in the world between 80.000- 90.000 / kg). Prices above, the extraction of coconut nectar for processing into sugar will bring higher economic efficiency left to sell. According to Marine Engineers, exploiting nectar so will not affect the development of the coconut tree.
The taking nectar of coconut flowers done when muscles are not elderly, primarily used to prevent wire bundles corn corn hatch exploded. Then, each day a sharp knife to cut thin slices from the outside early corn (cut 2 times day). When flicking hand cut corn bent down to comfort the country collecting the honey. By the seventh day after the start of cut flowers coconut corn, coconut trees for privacy. The remaining problem for growers is the technical processing sugar solution into salable quality.
