Harvest Coconut Fruit

in #aceh7 years ago

Hello Guys!

Today my friend and I pick coconuts or in other words harvest them.

We live in Aceh, Sumatra .. so we live in the tropics. which produces a lot of copra (coconut).

Cocos nucifera, the coconut palm, is a monocot perennial member of the Arecaceae (palm family), cultivated in tropical areas worldwide for its fruit and fiber. It has been extolled in songs, novels, and films, such as the Marx Brothers movie, Cocoanuts and The Coconut song (see YouTube clip and YouTube song). It is particularly important in Pacific islands, where it can be a primary source of food and a major cash crop.
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I really like to drink young coconut water, let alone very good for the body as our nutrition.
I often drink young coconut water by adding a little lemon, some people like to add sugar. I do not like to add sugar, because it is like getting caught in that sweet throat.

Benefits of Coconut Water

There are some benefits of young coconut water. please read my search results on the Google search engine

  1. Inhibits premature aging
    Coconut water is one of the natural ingredients that contain many cytokinins. Not only works well to repair skin cells that cause aging, coconut water can also prevent diseases such as skin cancer.
  1. Make facial skin look brighter and softer
    Containing high antioxidants, coconut water can get rid of toxins as well as nourish the skin again. In addition to diligently drink it every day, you can also apply coconut water on the face to get a brighter and smoother facial skin.

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Coconut water when it's young really not nice water, rather salty. kalo already contained more delicious, the more mature kelapanya the sweet taste of the water.

The price of coconut is IDR. 4,300/Kg or SBD 0.3320350062/Kg today is on 12/10/2017.

This is based on the price of SBD today
Koin Kode Harga Kap Pasar Volume Transaksi
Steem Dollars SBD Rp12.950,44173026 Rp46.029.936.348,0 Rp865.164.194,4
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We get 38 Kg after all collected.

If you want to know a lot about the description of coconut, I have already added for you.

There are 3 (three) types of coconut trees, among others:

  1. The deep coconut consists of green coconut varieties (viridis), red coconut (rubescens), gray coconut (macrocorpu), and sweet coconut (saccharin).
  2. Coconut mature consists of ivory coconut varieties (eburnea), coconut king (regia), coconut quail (pumila), and coconut king malabar (pretiosa).
  3. Hybrid coconut is a coconut of cross breeding between deep coconut and coconut palm to obtain coconut tree which has superior characteristic.
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Mature coconut can produce a good oil for consumption or herbs .. we in the tropics have been using coconut oil for generations to consume coconut oil and use as medicine. see the description below.

Among the benefits of coconut oil:

  1. Healthy for the Heart
  2. Hair Care
  3. For Skin Care
  4. Improving the Immune System
  5. Increase Energy
  6. Very good for burns
  7. Eradicate Mushroom Infection
  8. Controlling Weight
  9. Reducing the Risk of Alzheimer's
  10. Prevent liver disease
  11. Prevent kidney stones
  12. Treating Pancreatitis
  13. Good for Diabetes
  14. Dental Health.
  15. Bones
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