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by Elmo Leonard

Unless Sri Lanka's dwindling coconut harvest of around 2.7 billion nuts per year, is increased to over four billion, the industry faces an imminent calamity of an insufficient yield to feed the export oriented desiccated coconut industry. For decades now, the once thriving coconut oil industry has its mills in rust and ruin, one side of the coin being that the country has no coconuts to keep this industry going.
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