Indian Council of Agricultural Research

Women in Kerala Exploring New Avenues in Coconut Plucking

Indian Institute of Spices Research (IISR), Kozhikode has recently initiated a step towards empowering women through training in coconut plucking. Now, coconut plucking will no longer be considered a male bastion. Their female counterpart will give them a knife-edge competition as first batch of ‘Friends of Coconut’ completed their six day training at the Peruvannamuzhi Krishi Vigyan Kendra of the IISR recently.

Institute recently conducted an ‘all women’ training programme on coconut climbing for a group of 20 women (20-35 years). The training was organised as part of the ‘Friends of Coconut Tree’ programme being implemented by the Coconut Development Board to train unemployed youth in the art of climbing coconut trees and caring for them. KVK, Peruvannamuzhi is the first to conduct a training programme exclusively for women as part of the Friends of Coconut Tree programme of the Board.

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