date:Feb 14, 2014
Union Minister for Agriculture and Food Processing Sharad Pawar has said that India's exports of coconut products had more than doubled from Rs 496 crore ($79,886,062 USD) in 2010-11 to Rs 1022 crore ($164,603,942 USD) in 2012-13.
Mr Pawar said India had the highest share of the world production of coconuts at 26.34 per cent. The country also had the highest productivity, with 10,736 nuts per hectare, he said.
He said that coconut is cultivated in 18 States and 3 union Territories of the count