Soaring prices of coconut, coconut oil disrupts budgets of small-time eateries, households

“Kozhukatta ıl, a rice ball filled with a popular snack and jaggery, disappeared from the items offered for sale in Kudumbashree’s Janakeaya Hotel (Budget Hotel) in Vyttila.

For a long time, the Kozhukatta, which was founded as a suitable snack of common people, has recently rose to the Premium League recently, thanks to the price of coconuts, over 80 per kilogram, over 80 per kilogram.

For a budget hotel, the price of snacks was very good for appreciation or the price of customers despite its popularity. Jaggery’s rising price, which competed for coconut, did not help.

“To make about 40 kozhukattas from a piece of rice dust, four coconuts are required and sold them for a piece. We replaced them with ‘Pongappam’ without privilege, we were replaced with“ pongappam ,, sugar, precise coconut water and relatively less coconut, ”he said.

The hotel also reduced the number of coconuts between five and four to make side meals for lunch, but the taste returned as it proves a wounded. In addition, the hotel, liter of 400 liters of coconut oil price, the price of the premium, the fish french forced to slide alternative oil. Ratnakaran said, “We had no other alternative because a 10 -liter can coconut oil price rose to 4,500,” Ratnakaran said.

The household budget also received a hit due to the installation prices of coconut and coconut oil. “Coconut and coconut oil is inevitable, because they are continuous components in almost all dishes we cook. Once it is used for food made in coconut oil, it is very difficult to replace with any other oil due to both health and taste. The best thing we can do is to reduce the volume,” he said.

Former President of VarAppetty Service Cooperative Bank, Mg Ramakrishnan, has attached the increasing prices of coconuts and products for many reasons. He said that coconut production has fallen 20 to 25% in the last few years for various reasons, including climate change. “Increasingly accepting coconut oil in the United States Market caused an increase in exports there. The demand for coconut products, including sacrificed coconut powder and coconut milk, also rose in the European market after Pandemik.

Mr. Ramakrishnan stated that the increasing demand for coconuts for the relevant rituals in the temples throughout the country and the relevant rituals. Truck loads are like Kangayam in Tamil Nadu, from jammu and Kashmir to places as far away from coconuts in coconut, coconut in the South. This also contributed to the increase in coconut prices, he said.