Coconut – History, Uses, and Folklore

Coconut palm is considered as a native of Malesia, a bio-geographical region that includes Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Australia, New Guinea, and several Pacifi c Island groups. Coconut has been recorded in archaeological excavations and epigraphic inscriptions, in Sanskrit scriptures of religious, a...

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Main Author: SC Ahuja; Siddharth Ahuja and Uma Ahuja
Format: Printed Book
Published: Asian Agri-History 2014
Subjects:
KALPAVRIKSHA; > COCONUT PALM; > COCONUT TREE
Online Access:http://10.26.1.76/ks/004622.pdf
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