A survey of the coco-nut industry in the Mandated Territory of New Guinea

Abstract

The facts concerning the coco-nut industry in the Mandated Territory of New Guinea are not generally known outside this country, nor is the importance of this aspect of the agricultural development of the Territory realized by the majority of people, even in Australia.

Many of our planters and others closely associated with copra production are, to some extent, ignorant of the fluctuations in acreage, the trends in production and the returns from the industry from year to year. This lack of knowledge may he attributed in some degree to the difficulty in obtaining reliable data and statistics, hence the present author considers that an attempted survey of the development and present position of the industry and a review of its prospects, where possible, should prove illuminating.