What is a copra plantation? What is copra?
Copra plantations are agricultural operations that cultivate coco palms and harvest its nuts. The meat of the nuts are dried to produce copra. High-fat palm oil is rendered from copra and was once the primary economy of most South Pacific island nations and a large part of the economy of Pacific Basin, African and Central American nations. Palm oil was once the primary oil for cooking. But, after the invention of low-fat vegetable oils, the world market for palm oil collapsed and has never recovered.
