King Coconut export village in upper Murutawela

The King Coconut plant, which is a plant unique to Sri Lanka, is currently becoming a major plant that earns dollars for our country.

So far, not much attention has been paid to the King Coconut of this country as well as in the world, but now there is a big demand for King Coconut in the United Arab Emirates. Two hundred containers of Sweet Coconut (King Coconut) are being exported to the country per month.

However, the Agriculture and Plantation Industries Ministry took steps recently to cultivate King Coconut, which has been cultivated as a garden crop and not as a plantation crop, for the first time as a crop aimed at export.

Accordingly, the development of Murutawela upper area as Sri Lanka’s first King Coconut cultivation village was started under the patronage of Agriculture and Plantation Industry Minister Mahinda Amaraweera.

As a pilot project, first 1,500 King Coconut plants will be planted in the home gardens of this area. For that purpose, the distribution of high quality King Coconut plants was done by the Minister on Thursday (14). It is planned to provide ten seedlings per garden.

The King Coconut exported from this country to the United Arab Emirates is sold at a high price of Rs. 2,500 in the country’s coastal region. Currently, the demand for oranges in the country has increased three times. Due to the establishment of a regulatory system for the export of King Coconut with the intervention of the Coconut Development Authority, King Coconut in the United Arab Emirates is currently receiving an amount of US$ 0.8 (approximately Rs. 296) at the country’s port.

About 252,000 King Coconuts are exported to the United Arab Emirates per week. Last year (2022) an income of Rs. two billion was earned by exporting King Coconut, and this year (2023) the expected income is Rs. six billion.

Meanwhile, the Minister said that all measures are being taken to cultivate King Coconut as a plantation crop. Many countries in the world have tried to grow King Coconut, but all those efforts have failed. The tastiest King Coconut in the world is the Sri Lankan King Coconut. Therefore, he mentioned that steps will be taken to make Sri Lankan King Coconut popular in the world with the Sri Lanka Sweet Coconut brand, and the Coconut Development Board and the Coconut Development Authority have been given the necessary arrangements for that.

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