Tech intervention like 'doti' poles and Hello Nariyal climbers revolutionize coconut and areca harvesting in coastal Karnataka. Youth training initiatives promote local employment and improve ...

That's why scientists there have built a tree-climbing coconut-harvesting robot, that could perhaps someday take up the slack. The prototype device was created by a team at Amrita Vishwa ...

Some government departments claim that monkeys aren’t used for coconut harvesting ... making it “very easy to take pictures of frightened monkeys.” When PETA visited the First Monkey ...

The report says 64 farms out of 817 were randomly selected and “did not find the use of monkey for coconut harvesting.” “Following the recent news about the use of ‘monkey labour’ in ...

to train some 5,000 coconut cutters by 2012 not only to harvest the fruit but also to minister to the tree vital to the region’s economy. Kerala has over 500 million coconut trees covering 40 ...

Thai officials have denied the use of monkeys to help harvest coconuts. The statement from the country's deputy agriculture minister comes after several British retailer said they would stop the ...

to aid coconut farmers in harvesting and other necessary areas. It will function from the headquarters of the board in Kochi. The initiative aims to improve the activities of the coconut sector by ...