Coconut farmer's unfortunate condition

 In this blog article, I am sharing the unfortunate condition of a coconut farmer.

That coconut farmer is none other than my father.

I am writing the true experience. 

We have a coconut farm having around 22 coconut trees.

We don't put any fertiliser or provide any special treatment to the trees but we water them regularly. 

Yesterday itself we had hired a man to pluck the coconuts from the tree by climbing the tree. 

Nothing is free   !!!!

He said he will charge Rs. 2.50 for every coconut he plucks and throw down from the tree. 

It is not so easy to climb up the coconut tree. 

Without saying anything, my father agreed. 

Since the coconut trees are spread in a large area, my father hired a woman to collect the fallen coconuts. 

She said she will charge Rs 1 per coconut. 

My father agreed to that also. 

Our coconut farm is getting attacked by monkeys every time. 

Monkeys jump from one tree to another.  They pluck the tender coconuts as their shell is easy to remove. 

Monkeys try to drink coconut water. Even they feel thirsty. 

Whatever left coconuts are there on the tree, we have to be happy with them. 

So yesterday from our coconut garden, we got 200 coconuts. 

Expenses   coconut tree climber  200  ×  2.5    =.  500 rs

                     Helper    200  ×  1   =  200 rs

So total expenses are Rs 700. 

 As soon as we finished collecting all the coconuts, a coconut vendor came to our house asking if we are interested to sell the coconuts....... 

He said he will buy the coconuts with the shell or the skin. 

He had brought a van also with him to transport the coconuts right away. 

My father was very happy as we don't have to do anything. 

Coconut vendor fixed the price as Rs 7 per coconut. 

So out of the 200 coconuts, he said he will take only 100 coconuts saying that others are under grown and some are spoilt. 

So he is going to give us only Rs 700. 

We had incurred the expenses itself as Rs 700 . 

My father tried to negotiate with him saying that expenses itself was Rs 700.

Coconut vendor said that  Rs 700 is the maximum price he is offering for coconuts with shell. 

He also said that if we are not happy, we can contact other coconut vendors. 

But no one will offer more than that. 

Finally we had no other choice than to sell the coconuts to him. 

There is no value for the coconuts with shells.

Peeling off the shells is a tiresome task. 

That's why coconuts without shells are costly at the market.