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A Study on Coconut Development Board Coconut Development Board Dhanuraj D CCS RESEARCH INTERNSHIP PAPERS 2004 Centre for Civil Society K-36 Hauz Khas Enclave, New Delhi 110016 Tel: 2653 7456/ 2652 1882 Fax: 2651 2347 Email: [email protected] Web: www.ccsindia.org INTRODUCTION Coconut is grown in 92 countries in the world. Global production of coconut is 51 billion nuts from an area of 12 million hectares. The four major players; India, Indonesia, Philippines and Sri Lanka contribute 78% of the world production. India at present is the premier producer of coconut with maximum productivity at the global level. India is of the leading producers of coconuts in the world producing 13 billion nuts per annum. Coconut area is distributed in 18 states and three Union Territories. This geographical area has 3000 years’ tradition in coconut cultivation. There are millions of farmers linked with this sector directly or indirectly. Large numbers of farmer’s co-operative societies are in primary processing and marketing different coconut products. Government agencies such as Kerafed, State Trading Corporation, Kerala State Marketing Federation and Karnataka State Marketing Federation are in manufacturing and marketing of branded coconut oil in small packs. India has been known as the producer of best grade milling copra in the world yielding high-grade coconut oil known for its aroma and flavour. There are hundreds of reputed and established private firms in manufacturing and marketing of various coconut products including branded coconut oil in small packs. There are wide ranges of coconut products both edible and non-edible available for both domestic and export market. Coconut Development Board is a statutory body established by the Government of India for the integrated development of coconut production and utilization in the country with focus on productivity increase and product diversification. The Board which came into existence on 12th January 1981, functions under the administrative control of the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, with its headquarters at Kochi in Kerala and Regional Offices at Bangalore in Karnataka, Chennai in Tamil Nadu and Patna in Bihar. There are six State Centres situated Bhubaneswar in Orissa, Calcutta in West Bengal, Guwahati in Assam, Agartala in Tripura and Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh and Port Blair in the Union Territory of Andaman & Nicobar Islands. The Board has established 9 Demonstration cum Seed Production farms (DSP) in different locations of the country. The following are the functions, thrust areas and schemes given in the Coconut Development Board’s publications. FUNCTIONS OF THE BOARD • Adopting measures for the development of coconut industry, inter alia. • Imparting technical advice to those engaged in coconut cultivation and industry. • Providing financial and other assistance for the expansion of area under coconut. • Encouraging adoption of modern technologies for processing of coconut and its products. • Adopting measures to get incentive prices for coconut and its products. • Recommending measures for improving marketing of coconut and its products. • Recommending measures for regulating imports and exports of coconut and its products. • Fixing grades, specifications and standards for coconut and its products. • Financing suitable schemes to increase the production of coconut and to improve the quality • and yield of coconut. • Assisting, encouraging, promoting and financing agricultural, technological, industrial or • economic research on coconut and its products. • Collecting statistics on coconut and its products and publishing them. • Undertaking publicity activities and publishing books and periodicals on coconut and its Centre for Civil Society 2 • products. THRUST AREAS • Increasing the production of quality planting material. • Creating future production potential by bringing more area under coconut. • Improving productivity of existing coconut holdings. • Integrated management of major pests and diseases. • Strengthening coconut industry by promoting product diversification and by-product • utilization. SCHEMES 1. Production and Distribution of Planting Material • Establishment of Demonstration cum Seed Production (DSP) Farms for coconut. • Setting up of coconut nurseries attached to the DSP Farms. • Establishment of Regional Coconut Nurseries. • Aid to registered / private / approved coconut nurseries @ Rs.6 lacs for a coconut nucleus • seed garden and Rs.2 lacs for a coconut nursery 2. Expansion of Area under Coconut This program is intended to bring in more area under coconut in the potential belts thereby increasing the production potential in the country. For this, the small and marginal farmers are given incentive assistance for undertaking new planting of coconut and its further maintenance. The new planting assistance is given at the rate of Rs.8,000 per hectare, which is disbursed in two equal annual installments. The programme is implemented by the Board through the Department of Agriculture/Horticulture of various States/UT's as the cases may be. Application forms prescribed by the Board are supplied to various implementing offices of the State Government which in turn are distributed to the eligible farmers. The filled in applications submitted by farmers after proper field verification are forwarded to the office of the Board concerned with proper recommendation of the implementing officers for further processing and sanction of subsidy. The Board after scrutiny of the applications, sanctions eligible subsidy and disburse the sum in the form of individual cheques/demand drafts to the farmers through the same implementing offices. 3. Integrated Farming for Productivity Improvement • Removal of disease advanced palms @ Rs.250 per palm. • Laying out demonstration plots in farmers' garden @ Rs.35,000 per ha. • Aid to organic manure units @ Rs.20,000 per unit 4. Technology Demonstration • Financial assistance for setting up of pilot plants for the integrated coconut processing @ 50% of the cost of building / plant / machinery or maximum Rs.5 lacs. • Aid to technological research • Financial assistance to coconut based industries @ 25% of the cost of building/ plant/ machinery or Rs.2.50 lacs whichever is less. Centre for Civil Society 3 • Financial assistance for the introduction of Agmark/ISO Standards in coconut processing units @ 25% of the cost of laboratory equipments or Rs.1 lac whichever is less. • Grant-in-aid for the development and fabrication of machinery for coconut processing / cultivation / plant protection @ 25% of the cost or Rs.5 lacs, whichever is less. • Techno-economic studies on product diversification and byproduct utilisation. • Consultancy service on production, processing and marketing. 5. Market Promotion and Statistics • Market information and intelligence service. • Modernisation of coconut processing by introduction of improved copra dryer / other processing machineries / equipment @ 25% of the cost of dryer / equipment or maximum Rs.10,000, whichever is less. Surveys and evaluation studies. 6. Information and Information Technology • Production of publications in different languages including grant-in-aid to State Government / Universities for production of publications. • Production and screening of films including grant-in-aid to State Govt./Universities for production of films. • Participation in exhibitions and fairs. • Conducting seminars and workshops. • Awards to best growers, master craftsmen, industrialists, processors and • exporters. • Training youths in harvesting and plant protection. • Training farmers in scientific cultivation and post harvest processing. • Training in the manufacture of coconut based handicrafts. • National award to the best research worker or workers in product or machinery or equipment development. • Establishment of National Information Centre cum Electronic Data • Processing Unit. 7. Human Resources Development • Training to improve technical skills of managerial and supervisory personnel. • Training and visits to understand and appraise the technologies. Centre for Civil Society 4 EVALUATION TABLE 1 All India Final Estimate of Coconut (2001-2002) A R E A PRODUCTION PRODUCTIVITY STATE / UNION (Thousand Ha.) (Million Nuts) (Nuts / ha) TERRITORIES 2000-01 2001-02 2000-01 2001-02 2000-01 2001- (Revised)* (Revised)* (Revised)* 02 Andhra Pradesh 102.6 104.0 1092.7 1129.1 10650 10857 Assam 21.0 21.1 136.0 163.6 6476 7754 Goa 25.0 25.0 125.1 125.1 5004 5004 Karnataka 333.8 373.7 1754.2 1523.4 5255 4077 Kerala 925.8 939.5 5536.0 5744.0 5980 6114 Maharashtra 16.8 16.8 244.4 193.8 14548 11536 Orissa 17.7 17.3 109.9 142.4 6209 8231 Tamil Nadu 323.5 335.8 3192.0 3293.6 9867 9808 Tripura 3.1 3.3 7.0 7.0 2258 2121 West Bengal 24.5 25.6 330.5 331.6 13490 12953 A & N Islands 25.2 25.2 89.0 89.7 3532 3560 Lakshadweep 2.7 2.7 36.9 53.1 13667 19667 Pondicherry 2.2 2.3 24.7 25.3 11227 11000 ALL INDIA 1823.9 1892.3 12678.4 12821.7 6951 6776 Source: Directorate of Economics & Statistics, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India. @ Fully revised estimates for all states except Orissa and Tripura for which final estimates have been used. The coconut development board claims a significant improvement in area, production and productivity of coconut in the country during the period 1980-81 to 2001-02. The area, which was 1.083 million ha in 1980-81, increased to 1.892 million ha in 2001-02. The production increased from 5942 to 12822 million nuts and the productivity increased from 5485 to 6776 per ha during the same period. The growth rate was 2.69 percent in area, 3.73 percent in production and 1.01 percent in the productivity1. The important point that has to be taken into the account is that the growth rate in the various categories is that of a period of twenty years. During this twenty years time they have established the regional offices at Bangalore, Patna and Chennai and the state centres at Agartala, Bhubaneswar, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Kolkatta and at Port Blair. In addition, the board has established Demonstration-cum-seed production (DSP) farms in different parts of India demonstrating the scientific cultivation of the coconut to the farmers and to produce quality-planting material.
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