Breeding of Fruit and Plantation Crops

Objectives

• Adopting measures for the development of coconut industry
• 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 products.