Coconut is a versatile product and has multiple uses.Almost all the parts of a freshly grown coconut, eatable or otherwise, are usedin some or the other manner. Coconut everything can be found in the naturalfood market. Coconut oil, coconut sugar, coconut water. Each of the differentpieces of the coconut are used for different, and sometimes multiple, products.Therefore, oil competes with all of the other coconut products for the simpleavailability of the coconut plant.
The coconut is a very useful plant with a widerange of products being sourced from it. Coconut products are used to makeeverything from clothing to animal feed to beauty creams. Its kernel isharvested for its edible flesh and delicious water, while its husk is used forits strong fibers. Most important, however, are its oils, which are extracted,processed, and marketed for culinary, medicinal, and cosmetic uses alike. Suchtrendy products come from young green coconuts, fresh coconut and the trees’flowers.
Coconutproducts
1. Tender coconut water
2. Copra
3. Coconut oil
4. Raw kernel
5. Coconut cake
Coconut export from India includes coconut (freshand dried), copra, palm kernel/babassu oil, W/N refined not chemicallymodified, coconut desiccated, crude oil and fractions, oil-cake and oilcake mealexpeller variety of coconut or copra, coconut coir (raw), hookah of coconutshell, flower carvings of coir, etc.
Coconut and coconut based products sector plays apivotal role in the foreign exchange earnings by offering a wide array ofproducts to the international market. The coconut is a very useful plant with awide range of products being sourced from it. Coconut products are used to makeeverything from clothing to animal feed to beauty creams. Its kernel isharvested for its edible flesh and delicious water, while its husk is used forits strong fibers. Most important, however, are its oils, which are extracted,processed, and marketed for culinary, medicinal, and cosmetic uses alike.Typically, the flesh is first dried down to 6% moisture to make copra. Thisproduct is then hauled to factories across the world where it is manufacturedinto oil.
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