Know your Coconut Palm

The Coconut palm is known as the Tree of Life because it provides food, water, nutrition, oil, antiseptic, charcoal and wood to build a house.

Every part of the tree is used, this is how :

Currently over 70% of the coconuts harvested in Asia are used in the Copra Industry to make low grade crude coconut oil that is mostly shipped to Europe and processed by industrial conglomerates into retail items such as soap, toothpaste, cosmetics etc. 99% of the coconut husk is wasted and left to rot by the side of the road. The coconut Knowledge Centre has been instrumental in constructing over 50 small factories around Indonesia, Solomon Islands and the Philippines that enable the local farmers to get out of the low paying copra business and instead extract high value virgin coconut oil from the nuts. We are currently instigating the use of innovative carbon processing techniques in Flores which will utilise the currently wasted husks to make high grade charcoal that can be used as an efficient smokeless fuel by local villages. This charcoal will replace the current fuel that villages use which is dirty, environmentally unfriendly and carcinogenic.