Fews years ago, in the 2000's, a total of six coconut varieties, including three hybrids and three tall varieties were released to farmers. A small brochure was distributed to farmers, that contains the following data:
In 2017, MAF is officially releasing only the Samon Tall variety, but some hybrids and Dwarfs (niu le'a) are also sold in small quantitites by Nuu research station.
Name
|
Code
|
Number of nuts per palm per hectare
|
Coconut meat per nut (g)
|
Number of nuts per hectare (at 158,08 palms.ha)
|
Coconut meat per ha per year (kg)
|
Percentage of oil (on coprah or Dry matter?)
|
Malayan Red Dwarf x Niu Vai Tall
|
MRDxNVIT
|
136
|
564
|
21 499
|
12 125
|
na
|
Malayan Red Dwarf x Rennell Island Tall
|
MRDxRIT
|
129
|
517
|
20 392
|
10 543
|
69
|
Rennell Island Tall (From Solomon)
|
RIT
|
72
|
682
|
11 382
|
7 762
|
65
|
Malayan Red Dwarf x Samoan Tall
|
MRDxSMOT
|
114
|
383
|
18 021
|
6 902
|
69
|
Niu Vai Tall
|
NVIT
|
32
|
904
|
5 059
|
4 573
|
70
|
Samoan Tall
|
SMOT
|
38
|
401
|
6 007
|
2 409
|
69
|
In 2017, MAF is officially releasing only the Samon Tall variety, but some hybrids and Dwarfs (niu le'a) are also sold in small quantitites by Nuu research station.
