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The ‘Kerasamrudhi Mission’, an ambitious task launched by the Land Use section for the improvement of the Kuttiady coconut, is astir to get a changeable successful the limb successful the signifier of collaborations with assorted authorities departments, particularly tourism. The engagement of the Responsible Tourism Mission Society is expected to replicate the ‘Kumarakom model’ successful Kuttiady, wherein everything associated with this elite assortment of coconut palms and the orchards would unfold a bundle of tourism opportunities.
“The activities similar coconut climbing, leafage plating, and coir manufacturing could beryllium an immersive acquisition for tourists who sojourn these orchards. Besides, it would supply the value-added products from Kuttiady coconut an opening to the planetary market”, said Yasmin L. Rasheed, State Land Use Commissioner. The section has coined the tagline ‘Kuttiady to the World’ linking the task to tourism.
“The Kerasamrudhi task is not conscionable astir the coconut and the farmers, but the portion arsenic a whole. It involves harvest development, country expansion, caller technologies, GI Tag, patents, capableness gathering and assemblage involvement. We volition person a halfway radical for scaling up processing techniques, coming retired with caller products from coconut and revived export strategies,” Ms. Rasheed said. The Kunnummal block, wherever this assortment of coconut is chiefly cultivated, has a unsocial geography and microclimate, which would origin successful portion promoting it arsenic a tourer destination.
A coconut service has been formed successful the artifact to span the gaps successful assorted sectors, specified arsenic the non-availability of coconut climbers, deficiency of method know-how for Farmer-Producer Organisations and manufacturing of value-added products.
“The Coconut Development Board is starring the process, fiscal and technological, to get a GI (Geographical Indication) tag for the Kuttiady coconut. Meanwhile, Nabard has stepped successful to supply recognition linkages for the orchards. The model for the task is complete. It tin beryllium implemented arsenic soon arsenic we found the collaborations connected paper,” Ms. Rasheed said.
The Kunnummal artifact panchayat is the implementing bureau for the project, portion the Land Use section is coordinating it. The task whitethorn beryllium operational from January 2026 and would instrumentality astir 8 years to beryllium fulfilled.
