India grows 15 billion coconuts per year . . .
. . . all harvested by hand. (India is third in world production, behind Philippines and Indonesia.) It's hard work. As economic opportunities in India increase, fewer people want to do it. So the Kerala state government is offering a 1 million rupee prize to "to devise a machine that could ascend a coconut tree and harvest the nuts, thereby doing away with the need for human climbers."
OMG!! Next they'll be shipping the coconut picking jobs overseas.
Posted by: jorgxmckie | October 29, 2010 at 12:07 PM
Burt Lancaster made a movie about coconuts....His Majesty O'Keefe....supposedly coconut water is a cure for hangovers...
Posted by: jorod | October 29, 2010 at 09:14 PM
jorod, if coconut water were a cure for hangovers, then you could never get a hangover from drinking Pina Coladas.
Posted by: kyle8 | October 30, 2010 at 08:44 AM