Coconut Board to start its activities in Gujarat

Rajkot

Go to central government arm ‘Coconut Development Board’ website, and you would find that the board has no presence in Gujarat. In fact Gujarat and Goa are just two coastal states where Coconut Board has no presence. This is when Gujarat has the longest coastline among all states in India.

The Narendra Modi led government in centre has sent a team of officers of Coconut Board to Saurashtra region of Gujarat to start activities of Coconut Board in the state.

A team led by GR Singh, Director of Coconut Board is on three-day visit to Saurashtra.

A meeting was held with coconut farmers in Rajkot. Possible locations of Coconut Board office are Bhavnagar, Mahuva, Veraval and Junagadh.

With state centric office of Coconut Board, the farmers involved in coconut farming will get benifits of central government schemes pertaining to coconut farming.

Coconut Development Board (CDB) is a statutory body established under the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India for the integrated development of coconut cultivation and industry in the country with focus on productivity increase and product diversification.Its Headquarters at Kochi in Kerala and Regional Offices at Bangalore in Karnataka, Chennai in Tamil Nadu and Guwahati in Assam. There are six State Centres situated at Bhubaneswar in Orissa, Calcutta in West Bengal, Patna in Bihar, Thane in Maharashtra, Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh and Port Blair in the Union Territory of Andaman & Nicobar Islands. The Board has 9 Demonstration cum Seed Production (DSP) Farms in different locations of the country and now 7 farms are maintained. A Market Development cum Information Centre has established in Delhi. The Board has set up a Technology Development Centre at Vazhakulam near Aluva in Kerala.

– DeshGujarat