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Environmental effects of Desiccated coconut industry in Sri Lanka.
By Dr. Hiran Amarasekera | May 23, 2006
Gayesha Jayasinghe
The desiccated coconut (DC) industry is one of the major export oriented food processing industries in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is the birthplace of the DC industry. The DC industry in Sri Lanka consists around 66 factories, which are mostly located in the coconut triangle.
Heat & electricity are the to main energy forms used in Dc mills. There are many wastes produce during the manufacturing process, such as coconut water, coconut shell, etc. They badly affected to the surrounding environment &the people who are living in those places. We can recover the affects to some amount by applied some technological options.
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University of Sri Jayewardenepura (http://www.sjp.ac.lk)
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October 11th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Also the DC industry is one of the main thing to destroyed the Agricultural lands from village areas.