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Synopsis Coconut is one of the traditional/ prominent perennial crops associated with heritage/culture and economy of India for the last 3000 years. It is preferred and cultivated by all the categories of farmers irrespective of their land holding and economic and social status. Moreover coconut is closely coupled with the daily foodstuff of millions of people around the world. Amidst huge production and demand, coconut suffers with the bottlenecks of low level of production technology/ high degree of pest and disease, land fragmentation, obsolete irrigation system, conventional harvesting, poor value addition facilities, underprivileged institutional arrangements in marketing, unstabilized price, lack of proper financing institutions etc.,The book presents the essential aspects of coconut production and marketing with simplicity and definitely this book could be a sense of stimulus and guidance to millions of present and prospective coconut growers for their continuous association with coconut farming.