Plantation Crops (2+1)

Seedlings

• The peeled seedlings are eaten fresh or sun-dried, raw, or cooked in various ways. They also yield starch, which is locally made into gruel, with rice, herbs, chili peppers, fish, or other ingredients added. It has been proposed for commercial starch production. .
• Plalmyrah roots : Three months old roots (tubers) are edible on coocking Besides neera or padaneer we also get
• Fruits/ Nungu, : It weighs 27 to 54 g.
• Nungu = Mlayalam, and Talsans = Bengali.
• It is tender palmyra fruit. It is delicious and rich in

  carbohydrate,
  Phosphorous,
  Iron and
  Vitamin –C, Niacin, Riboflavin etc.,