World Coconut Day Celebrated at Car Nicobar with Enthusiastic Participation

Tarun Karthick

Sri Vijaya Puram, 04 September 2025

The Zonal Agriculture Team, Car Nicobar, celebrated World Coconut Day 2025 on 2nd September 2025, on the Multipurpose Farm, Perka, on the theme “Uncovering Coconut’s Power, Inspiring Global Action.” The occasion was graced by Deputy Commissioner, Nicobar District, Mr. Satnam Singh, IAS, because the chief visitor, with Mr. John Chrysostem, Second Headman of Perka Village, as visitor of honour. Ms. Tripti Kalhans, IAS (P), Car Nicobar, additionally attended the programme.

In his deal with, the Deputy Commissioner congratulated the folks of Nicobars, notably the tribal communities, for his or her wealthy coconut cultivation custom, highlighting its non secular, financial, and well being significance. Subject matter specialists from CIARI-KVK and officers of the Agriculture Department spoke on subjects together with technological improvements, cultivation practices, and worth addition in coconut farming.

Welcoming the gathering, Mr. C. Vinod Kumar, Assistant Director (Soil), emphasised the very important position of coconut within the day by day lives of tribal communities and urged contributors to make full use of presidency schemes associated to cultivation, worth addition, and post-harvest applied sciences.

To mark the event, farmers actively participated in competitions resembling coconut recipe shows, handicrafts, value-added coconut merchandise, and coconut de-husking. An interplay session between line division officers and farmers was additionally held. Around 30 farmers from totally different villages took half within the occasion, which concluded with the distribution of prizes to the winners.