Srilanka, Feb. 17 -- The domestic market has experienced a surge in coconut prices due to the gap between supply and demand. As a solution for this, good agricultural practices need to be adopted to increase the harvest efficiency in coconut cultivation fields.

Accordingly, maintaining spacing among plants, enabling a sufficient amount of sunlight, replacing unproductive trees with new plants, soil conservation through intercropping, pest management, balanced plant nutrition and efficiency in water management can be considered as the factors for harvest efficiency.

Normally, 100-120 coconuts can be harvested annually from a healthy, well-maintained coconut tree in Sri Lanka. For such a harvest outcome, 60 litres of water need to be p...