Market Potential
Being a mass consumption item, desiccated coconut has a good market. At present about 4000 tones of desiccated coconut is manufactured annually and used mainly by confectionery and biscuit indusry. In Kerala coconut is the major ingredient used in the preparation of Breakfast lunch and Dinner. In the preparation of curries coconut paste is usually added. Instead of that desiccated coconut powder may be added . Desiccated coconut may find good market in areas where coconuts are not produced particularly in Northern India. Now-a-days food habits of our people are changing very fast and a number of food items are being introduced every day where desiccated coconut may also find use. So there is a good scope for new small scale units to come up in this line of manufacture.
