SENILE COCONUTS
June 1st, 2002
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE Coconut Cultivation Board of Sri Lanka is complaining that 18.5 per cent of the island's nut bearing palms have grown "senile," being past their productive peak at 60 years plus. The board wants to replenish stocks with younger trees. A focus will be the north, where trees were also damaged during the recently ceased civil war.
THE Coconut Cultivation Board of Sri Lanka is complaining that 18.5 per cent of the island's nut bearing palms have grown "senile," being past their productive peak at 60 years plus. The board wants to replenish stocks with younger trees. A focus will be the north, where trees were also damaged during the recently ceased civil war.
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