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Presents a humorous depiction on how workers would react concerning the continuous increase of coconut prices in Asia.

Highlights the meeting of the Asian and Pacific Coconut Community in 1994 in Columbo, Sri Lanka. Achievement of a better future for the coconut industry; Coconut as a major commercial commodity.

The article discusses the use of monkeys by Thai plantation owners to pick coconuts. In some Thai villages, up to 10% of the land is devoted to growing coconut trees, which are harvested every month and produce up to 70 nuts a year. A workforce of several thousand monkeys in southern Thailand help pick the country's crop of about 1.5 million tons of coconuts. Villages often have at least one monkey per household and the animal is rented out to a local plantation at a modest fee. Monkeys have been used for decades by humans to work in Thai agriculture to pick coconuts and fruit, but their number is growing. Monkeys do not work when they are ill, and when they grow old they are either released back into the forest or kept as pets.

The article discusses the 47th Project Approval Committee (PAC) on Technology Mission on Coconut (TMOC) in Kochi, Kerala. The article also discusses that 58 projects were cleared with an outlay of Rs 91.65 crore, projects for neera processing, flavoured coconut juice processing and desiccated coconut powder processing were cleared, along with a subsidy of Rs 13.09 crore grated for the projects.

Deals with the anti-poverty project by DaimlerChrysler in Brazil with the use of waste coconut husk as a valuable industrial source. Amount invested by the company for the project; How coconut fibers are processed; Number of Brazilians who benefited from the project.

Reports that the Philippine Coconut Authority is confident that coconut oil production will be unaffected by a rebel uprising on the island of Mindanao. Expected decline in the production of copra, dried coconut meat; Expected increase in global trade in palm oil during 1999-2000; Philippines' largest competitor.

Focuses on the shortage plaguing the coconut oil market. Anticipation of better shipments from the Philippines; Problem of freight; Forecast for global copra production in 2000; Impact of reduced production and availability of coconut oil on international trade.

Assesses coconut oil market in 1998. Major producer of coconut oil; Decline of coconut oil shipments during the fourth quarter of 1998; Projected decline of coconut oil consumption in the United States by 2001.

Reports on the rise in the prices of coconut oil worldwide. Influence of a drought in the Philippines over the last 12-18 months; Strong demand for coconut oil; Increase in the imports of coconut oil in the United States.