What is Copra?

COPRA is dried coconut meat. Each mature coconut palm of the bear from 50 to 75 nuts that can be selected, divided into machetes and left in the sun to dry. Copra is then dug out of the shells and dried on the stands. It is then wrapped in bags for bags for transport to the processing race. The dried the remaining part is called coconut cake or oil cake. The oil cake has a high content of fiber and protein and is considered to be high quality feed for livestock. Coconut oil is also extracted by hexane, oil by -product. It is also used for detergents, shampoos and soaps. Coconut oil contains lauric acid that protects oils from bile rotation. Baked goods made of coconut oil have prolonged lives of advertising compared to goods made with other fats. On businesses, they were looking for edible oils that would deal with lack of milk fats in Europe. They found their oil source in coconut palms on the Pacific Islands. Pacific Islanders with StarAli o trees and harvested nuts like chatting industry.

The jungle areas were cleaned under the leadership of the European trading companies COPPRA in order to plant more coconut trees. Coconut trees are fast growing and mature within five or six years after sowing. They are very tolerant of salt water and dry conditions.

Every family was responsible for their own trees. Members of the family would burst the nuts in half a machete or by bringing the nuts to a sharp point. Then they built halves for a few days to dry in the sun in the sun. The dried meat was hand scraped from the shells.

COPRA traders would sail from one island to another and lift the bags of Icelanders bags should be ready for them. Their visits were in the schedule to encourage islanders to work to prepare as many products as possible for each sailing. Natives would bring their crop to the island's municipalityDays of the station where the transaction would take place.

The collection and production of coconut continues to be the basis of life for families on the Pacific. Islanders still use traditional methods to divide and dry the coconut halves. They also manually extract dried meat.

COPHRA harvest is not without its disadvantages. For example, Copra Itch is a complaint that is sometimes found for those who process this product. It is characterized by redness and itching that begins on the hands and arms, and later spreads to the trunk of the affected person. The solution was identified as responsible for this skin condition, which is clarified by treatment or removal of contact with the dill infected mites.