76 COCONUT CULTIVATION 



ESTIMATES OF COST OF PRODUCTION OF COCONUT 

 OIL AND OIL CAKE IN A TROPICAL COUNTRY 



Basis of Estimates. The factory is capable 

 of treating fifty thousand nuts per day. The 

 nuts weigh four hundred and thirty-five to the 

 ton, i.e. the total weight is 115 tons (1 nut 

 weighs 5 Ibs. approx.). 



From an examination of nuts in the Malay 

 States the average composition may be taken 

 as 



Husk ... 34 per cent. 



Milk ... 24 



Shell ... 12 



Meat ... 30 (yielding 14 per cent, of copra). 



In the estimates which follow the nut is taken 

 to yield 



Husk 30-0 per cent. 



Meat 27-8 



Dried Copra 10-85 



Or, four thousand nuts yield 1 ton of dried 

 copra. The husk is taken to yield 



Short Fibre 2-45 per cent. 



Long Fibre 8-05 



Mattress and Spinning Fibre 24 



