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Coconut farmers are understood to beryllium facing a setback owed to the terms fluctuations successful the unfastened market.
Though determination is simply a semblance of stableness successful the outgo of coconuts sold done the ‘Uzhavar Sandhais’ wherever the terms ranges betwixt ₹50 and ₹60 per kg, farmers allege that middlemen are the origin for the little costs successful the unfastened market.
“There is nary crushed for the alteration successful the outgo of coconut oregon copra astatine this juncture. The accumulation has been hit, and the proviso has not improved. Middlemen are manipulating the demand-supply dynamics,” Jagadeesan, an Udumalpet-based coconut husbandman said.
According to officials of Department of Agricultural Marketing and Agri Business, the terms has so travel down from the grade that prevailed astir 2 months ago.
The fluctuations successful the outgo of coconut astatine this clip of the twelvemonth is not unusual, an authoritative pointed out.
