coconut farming
Tropical drupe agriculture
Coconut farming is the cultivation of coconut palms for their fruit, which yields oil, milk, meat, and fiber.
The practice dominates tropical coastal agriculture in Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, and parts of Africa and Latin America.
Most coconut farming remains small-scale and labor-intensive, with farmers climbing trees or using poles to harvest: His family has been coconut farming for three generations.
- intercroppingSimultaneous multi-crop cultivation
- tropical climateWarm, rainy year-round conditions
- export marketsForeign countries purchasing goods
- dehuskingRemoving outer seed covering
- islandWater-bounded land mass
smallholder · farm workers · pest control · irrigation systems · virgin oil · agriculture · coir · toddy · carbon sequestration · pruning techniques · climbing · waste recycling · drying racks · disease resistance · organic fertilizers · price fluctuations · palm · plantation
- coconutscopra, coir, kernel, meat, husks
- island economiesfishing, tourism, copra, sugarcane, shipbuilding
- tropical farmingtropical crops, banana plantation, sugarcane, coffee plantation, bananas
- Eastern VisayasYolanda
- MarinduqueSanta Cruz
- Asian farmingrice paddies, rice fields, paddy fields, rice cultivation, rice terraces