Coconut farmers were passing through a tragic period due to severe price crash since the last one year. Concerted efforts from the Central and State Governments are crucial to revive the sector from the aftermath of the crash. Various programmes of the state and central schemes have to be dovetailed to recoup the coconut sector to the status it occupied as an important revenue generating crop. The coconut farmers are also now aware of the need to break the copra coconut oil nexus and move on to otherpromising diversified products from coconut. The number of CPSs and Federations taking initiatives in coconut processing is increasing day by day. Under these circumstances, it is essential to conceptualise and implement projects for the sustainable development of the sector with priority for the promotion of more processing units in coconut.
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