The Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday listed out various measures to promote coconut cultivation in the State, while presenting the Agriculture Budget for 2024-25 in the Assembly.
To increase the productivity of coconut and to motivate the farmers to adopt improved technologies, demonstrations will be made in farmers’ fields and state coconut nurseries at an outlay of ₹12.50 crore, Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare M.R.K. Panneerselvam said.
Demonstration would be established in 25,000 acres at ₹12 crore to show how timely application of necessary inputs in right quantities would improve the productivity of coconut, he said.
