KOZHIKODE: Once a male-dominated profession, coconut tree climbing saw the entry of many women in the past decade. This is chiefly owing to government initiatives that aim to train them in skills that ...

Kerala faces a nutty problem. The state is in desperate need of coconut palm climbers and its government is now willing to do whatever it takes: give this age-old profession a modern makeover, give it ...

NEYYATTINKARA, India — Retired government worker and small-time coconut farmer Prakasan Thattari is very proud of his invention: a machine with the look of a giant metallic praying mantis that clangs ...

Twenty-four-year-old Sreedevi G from Malappuram in Kerala scaled new heights during the lockdown in Kerala. The B.Ed. student of NSS Teacher Training College, Ottappalam, learnt to climb coconut trees ...

Forty years ago, K. Sasi chose to become a coconut plucker. He loved his job and never turned back. Now 60, Mr. Sasi is on cloud nine after bagging the ‘Thozhilali Sreshta’ award of the State ...