- Coconut can grow over a wide range of soil such as loamy, coastal, sandy, laterite, clayey, alluvial soil
- Rehoboth Organic farms grows both Talls and Dwarfs palms.
- Coconut palm is mainly propagated through seedlings.
- Seedlings are raised from only selected seed nuts of coconut for healthy growth rate and optimum production
- Generally, planting should be done of only 10 to 12 months old raised seedlings.
- Adopt a spacing of 25′ x 25′ (7.5 x 7.5 m) with 175 plants/ha is ideal for tall varieties
- Adopt a spacing of 8.5 x 8.5 m is optimum for hybrids
- Adopt a spacing of 6.5 x 6.5 m is optimum for dwarf variety
- First irrigation should be given, just after the transplanting of seedling on the ground.
- Frequent irrigation to this crop for the 1st two years of the seedling plantation on the field
- Add about 30 to 40 kg of organic manure depending on the soil fertility
- Harvesting should be done at their tender age for water purpose.
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