The 1930s-40s: The Indian National Congress (inc) calls upon Keralites to abstain from drinking toddy. The argument is two pronged: social and economic. Toddy tapping is projected as a debased profession that wastes the resources of the coconut tree.
Year 2001: Coconut prices drop drastically. Coconut growers, wearing garlands of coconuts, jump into the Arabian Sea as a mark of their anguish.
Year 2002: Priests, intellectuals, farmers, women and children in Kerala are all engaged in a defiant exhibition of toddy drinking on television screens: an attempt to reposition toddy as a
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/coconut-capital
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/surendranath-c
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/down-earth
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/cash-crops
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/coconut
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-prices
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/development
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/agricultural-labourers
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/kerala
