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copra

koh pruh

  • n  the dried meat of the coconut from which oil is extracted

  • For the General it began three years and 4,000 roundabout miles away, in the blood and mud of a wretched copra settlement called Buna on the north coast of New Guinea.
  • With just 2,000 lucky inhabitants and one hotel, it's a place where the sight of a boy washing his horse in the surf on an empty black-sand beach, or copra drying in someone's .
  • Copra is also imported to Baltimore.
News & Articles

  • European vegoils-Coconut oil prices soar on typhoon impact
    ROTTERDAM, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Coconut oil soared on the European vegetable oils market on Tuesday due to concerns over copra supplies following the damage Super Typhoon Haiyan did to coconut trees and ...
    Nov. 12, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! Finance
Quotes

  • P Chidambaram in Business Standard
    The increase in the MSP of Copra is expected to encourage the farmers to step up investment in coconut cultivation, increase production and productivity of coconut in the country,Finance Minister P Chidambaram told reporters.

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