International Coconut Festival in Kochi From July 2–6

Kochi is all set to host Cocotech, the international coconut festival, from July 2–6, 2012. The global financial turmoil, climate change and carbon credits will be some of the topics for discussion at the event.

Organized by the Asian and Pacific Coconut Community (APCC) and the union government, under the auspices of the Coconut Development Board, the meet with the theme ‘Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development of the Coconut Industry,’ will see more than 200 delegates from across the globe.

The meeting proposes to have a series of technical sessions and will look at new technologies and research and development update on coconut-based farming systems, product diversification and processing, including the health attributes of coconut.

The meet will aim at finding a solution to these problems and will have experts from the corporate sector too as resource persons to address the delegates.