COCONUT FRUIT PRODUCTION

A study was conducted to compare yield of some fruit variables of Ghana and Nigeria coconuts. The main objective was to compare coconut oil yield between Nigeria and Ghana coconut types. The experiment also evaluated five key variables namely, weight of coconut, water, shell, copra and oil content. Standard pressing method was applied and, in the process, shell and copra were extracted, blended, sieved before oil was finally extracted through heating. The data collected were analyzed using T-test at 5% level of significance. The results shows that coconut and shell were significantly different with Nigeria coconut producing higher values of 557g and 400g in copra and shell variables respectively. The other variables did not differ between the coconut types. Furthermore, Nigerian coconut had a higher value of crude protein and oil whereas Ghana coconut
surpassed Nigeria coconut in all other variables. In conclusion, Nigeria coconut was better (p<_ 0.05) than Ghana coconut, shell and copra variables whereas all other variables were similar