Cocoa intercropping picks up in coconut plantations as crop yield improves

MADURAI: For those coconut farmers who complain about poor returns, a few like V Suresh and V Subash from S Puliankulam, near Silaiman, should be role models. While most farmers have been cultivating plantain as intercrop in coconut plantations, the brothers tried cocoa. Around 50 such coconut farmers who decided on intercropping of cocoa in Madurai district four years ago now feel they are on the right path. The coconut yield from lands with cocoa intercrop...