The number of new dwarf coconut growers has expanded and the market is expected to be thriving again when the harvest season falls.
“The number of dwarf coconut growers has been large recently. Plantations are located mostly in Twantay and around the Yangon-Mandalay Expressway. The production will be large over the next three years. Now it is the beginning of the growing season. It is expected that the market will be fine again when fruits are produced at the same time,” said a dwarf coconut grower in Twantay Township.
Including Twantay Township and Yangon-Mandalay Expressway, dwarf coconuts are grown in Taikkyi and Hlegu townships and some plantations even stretch acreage of trees.
“There are plantations in Hlegu too. Some grow hundreds of trees and some have acreage of trees. The market has been potential now because there is an increase in the grower population,” he said.
In April this year, raw dwarf coconuts grown in Myanmar were exported to Thailand, according to coconut farms. Dwarf coconut can be made into finished products and the domestic market is likely to develop if packaging improves, and raw materials produced from the coconut can be used in making jelly and juice. — Thit Taw/ZS
