Coconut and its cultivation

- drinking coconut juice is the best way to beat the summer heat and quench one's thirst
- Hainan, China, has more than 2000 years of history in coconut cultivation
- coconut is a typical summer fruit
- sufficient sunlight, abundant rainfall, low sea altitude and coastal regions suit their growth the most
- common folk saying in Hainan, that coconuts have souls and won't drop on good people

- some say farming involves 3 dimensions: dirty, difficult and dangerous
- if the skin is thick and unwrinkled, and the sound of water is audible, it means the coconuts can be harvested
- coconuts are tropical plants which can withstand strong winds

- growing in breezy coastal regions stimulates their output
- picking of coconuts in the morning 8am till around noon
- about 1200 coconuts are loaded onto a lorry (1min pick 5 coconuts on ave)
- fill 2 lorries a day to be delivered to the factory to be sold for their juice
- sold at $1 per coconut (sold at $5 at the market)

- tools are used to pick the coconuts
- the coconut shoot is lighter as there's no pulp or water left
- when it's germinating, the water and pulp becomes the shoot's nutrients
- the water will disappear gradually

- coconuts fall from the tree and grow shoots on the ground
- the tree takes 5-6 yrs to bear fruits
- life span of a coconut tree is 50-100 yrs
- grow coconuts every year
- uproot a coconut shoot and dig deep enough to cover the entire husk  in the ground

- coconut can also be turned into various food products eg coconut candy, coconut powder, coconut flakes, coconut biscuits, coconut biscuits, coconut-flavoured tea and coffee etc
- coconut processing factory rolls out different coconut products daily
- daily output of coconut candies alone comes up to 20 tonnes- coconut can also be cooked to produce titillating food
- coconut stuffed with glutinous rice and steamed for 8 hrs is a famous Hainan snack
- tastes like the Thai dessert, glutinous rice mixed with mango
- the coconut milk is aromatic and the mature coconut skin is crunchy and flavourful