The coconut palm is said to have been introduced to Sri Lanka over 2300 years ago. Several industries have grown up to process products from this tree. Many of these production units have traditionally been located in rural ...

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Work done by Coconut Research Institute, Sri Lanka, on the genetics and breeding of the coconut palm from 1930 to 1980 is described.

Over four decades of research indicate that the cultivar CRIC65 is capable of producing a sustained higher yield compared to CRIC60 inthe absence of adverse soil water deficit. Data indicate that the cumulative yield of ...