DEVELOPMENT OF A TENDER COCONUT CUTTING MACHINE

This is evident from the increasing number of tender coconut parlours along the
roadside. But almost at all places, the machete is the tool used in chopping the husk and
cuttings open the shell. This has led to the owning of such parlours by only those skilled in
the task. Though some attempts were made to devise simple hand tools for punching open the
nut and then splitting in to two halves, these too did not result in the production of a tool
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suitable for easy use by even women. Hence there was a necessity for developing a simple
manual operating tender coconut cutter.