Valuable coconuts

By Golam Ashraf DOHS Baridhara, Dhaka 1206
4 May 2005, 18:00 PM
With the growth of population, the demand is increasing day by day for green coconuts as nutritious drink, grind and flakes of dried coconuts for use inpithas, dressing cakes, as sweet snacks during 'wedding ceremonies' and coconut paste for preparing spicy sauces and for delicious prawn dishes.

We mostly consume green coconut water during the prolonged hot summer for maintaining good health by supplementing the lost minerals.

The city corporations and municipalities should employ trained coconut tree climbers and coconut vendors, who would assist the residents by climbing their trees and plucking the green and dried coconuts and sell them in the market on commission basis, and also twice a year prune the dried-up pods and branches during the Bangla months of Baishakh, Joistho, Ashwin, Karthik and thus increase production of coconuts.