Cultivation
| Top ten coconut producers in 2010 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country | Production (tonnes) | Footnote | ||
| Philippines | 19,500,000 | |||
| Indonesia | 15,540,000 | |||
| India | 10,824,100 | |||
| Brazil | 2,759,044 | |||
| Sri Lanka | 2,200,000 | F | ||
| Thailand | 1,721,640 | F | ||
| Mexico | 1,246,400 | F | ||
| Vietnam | 1,086,000 | A | ||
| Papua New Guinea | 677,000 | F | ||
| Malaysia | 555,120 | |||
| Tanzania | 370,000 | F | ||
| World | 54,716,444 | A | ||
Coconut palms are grown in more than 80 countries of the world, with a total production of 61 million tonnes per year. Coconut trees are very hard to establish in dry climates, and cannot grow there without frequent irrigation; in drought conditions, the new leaves do not open well, and older leaves may become desiccated; fruit also tends to be shed.
The extent of cultivation in the tropics is threatening a number of habitats, such as mangroves; an example of such damage to an ecoregion is in the Petenes mangroves of the Yucatan.
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