Accordingly, the establishment of this new coconut triangle centered on the areas of Ranna, Weerakatiya and Valasmulla is currently being carried out. Accordingly, arrangements have been made to provide 05 coconut saplings per household to the farmers for planting coconut saplings in their home gardens.
Although coconut cultivation in Sri Lanka is planted as a plantation crop, so far 75 percent of the total coconut production is used for local consumption. Although it is a plantation crop with a high demand for export, coconut production in this country has not yet been developed to the point of export.
Although the total daily consumption of coconuts is around 4.5 million nuts, the daily production of coconuts is around 03 million nuts. For this reason, the Minister of Agriculture and Plantation Industries, Mr. Mahinda Amaraweera, has instructed the National Coconut Development Board to implement a program to motivate the people to cultivate coconut cultivation in every home garden that has space.
A large amount of coconut that can be used in the consumption of our country is destroyed due to ignorance. For this reason, the minister also instructed the board to prepare practical programs to inform the public about how to get the maximum benefit from a coconut in the consumption of coconuts.
Apart from this, steps have been taken to provide coconut saplings to the farmers of those seven villages in relation to the Youth Agri Entrepreneurship Village Program currently operating in 07 villages of Hambantota district
