The ABC
The national broadcaster, that’s what they call themselves.
Serious journalism … I just read this piece on coconuts.
Precis.
Ingham in Qld has thousands of coconut trees. Planted them away back because they looked cool.
But the coconuts are now a head injury hazard so they spend $0.5m a year denutting the trees. That’s too much so now they’re ripping out every third tree.
Logic, unspecified.
Inexplicable segue, Pacific islands. Many coconut trees are getting senile (sic) and not producing anymore.
Producers don’t want to rip out old trees and plant new ones because they might have a couple of lean years.
Not farmers obviously.
Solution provided by a federal government grant-funded Tasmanian academic (really!); start up a coconut wood industry in the Pacific.
End of report.
The mystery of the coconut has not been solved.
offshore westerly 