Coconuts

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PHILIPPINES SAIJIKI

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Coconut, coconuts

***** Location: Philippines, India
***** Season: Non-seasonal Topic
***** Category: Plant

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Explanation





The Philippines is the world's second largest producer of coconut products, after Indonesia. In 1989 it produced 11.8 million tons. In 1989, coconut products, coconut oil, copra (dried coconut), and desiccated coconut accounted for approximately 6.7 percent of Philippine exports. About 25 percent of cultivated land was planted in coconut trees, and it is estimated that between 25 percent and 33 percent of the population was at least partly dependent on coconuts for their livelihood. Historically, the Southern Tagalog and Bicol regions of Luzon and the Eastern Visayas were the centers of coconut production. In the 1980s, Western Mindanao and Southern Mindanao also became important coconut-growing regions.

In the early 1990s, the average coconut farm was a medium-sized unit of less than four hectares. Owners, often absentee, customarily employed local peasants to collect coconuts rather than engage in tenancy relationships. The villagers were paid on a piece-rate basis. Those employed in the coconut industry tended to be less educated and older than the average person in the rural labor force and earned lower-than-average incomes.
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The Coconut Palm (Cocos nucifera) is a member of the Family Arecaceae (palm family). It is the only species in the genus Cocos, and is a large palm, growing to 30 m tall, with pinnate leaves 4-6 m long, pinnae 60-90 cm long; old leaves break away cleanly leaving the trunk smooth. The term coconut refers to the fruit of the coconut palm.

The coconut palm is grown throughout the tropical world, for decoration as well as for its many culinary and non-culinary uses; virtually every part of the coconut palm has some human use.

Botanically, a coconut is a simple dry nut known as a fibrous drupe.



Coconut hispine beetle or Brontispa longissima gestro feeds on young leaves and damages seedlings and mature coconut palms. On September 27, 2007, Philippines' Metro Manila and 26 provinces were quarantined due to having been infested with this pest (to save the $800-million Philippine coconut industry).
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Worldwide use

India

Coconut Trees and Kerala
INDIA SAIJIKI


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Kenya

February sun --
a madafu vendor sharpens
a spoon for me

Caleb Mutua
Kenya

madafu is swahili for coconut milk.


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Yemen

green coconuts
kigo for autumn


at the beach I change
my profile settings: silent
green coconuts

Heike Gewi, Yemen
YEMEN SAIJIKI


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Things found on the way

COCONUT DARUMA　ココナツだるま　


PICTURE curtesy to Robert D. Gill

Coconuts Daruma


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HAIKU

Summer scene:
a pile of cracked coconuts
beside the tree.

© Willie R. Bongcaron, Manila
Kigo Hotline, April 2008


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sea
A coconut gently dances
in the waves

©　john tiong chunghoo, Malaysia, 2006


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Reddened by green leaves
kumkum on the coconut
is made more sacred.

©　Graham Brown, Sydney, Australia, 2006


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Related words

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