Hainan is the main production area for tropical cash crops such as rubber, coconuts, oil palms, sisal and pepper, etc.
Because of warm and humid climate, Hainan Island is an important producer of pineapples, coconuts, mangoes, sugar cane, coffee and rubber trees.
All the tribe members standing in awe watching a man knocking down coconuts from the top of a 25-metre palm tree, who then descended with no harness or climbing aid.
But, in fact, what they are doing is very dangerous to their safety because, as the picture tells us, coconuts on the coconut tree may fall down anytime and hurt them.
Let me cite a few instances: bananas, coconuts, pineapples, ect. are all from the South.
Their powerful jaws can break nuts that they find such as coconuts and other hard shelled nuts.
QUICK QUIZ: Draw an example of a production possibilities frontier for Robinson Crusoe, a shipwrecked sailor who spends his time gathering coconuts and catching fish.
Hey, how long till more coconuts?
In the morning, oranges and coconuts spilled from beneath the bed. Godfrey seemed pleased with the night's business.
They were now resident in the forest through which we wandered, past Java plums, mahogany, teak and acacia trees, hanging oranges, lychees, coconuts, pineapples and tea-tree shrubs.
He dropped a few coconuts down to us.
By the second day, lorry loads of food started arriving as Sri Lankans responded generously with rice, vegetables, coconuts and necessities.
At first he was happy to be out on his own. He swung from the highest branches. He ran here and there looking for coconuts. He ran after lizards. And he even had a run-in with a noisy parrot.
His venture near the resort town of Chiang Mai is not unique. Monkeys have been used to harvest coconuts in southern Thailand for generations.
Had a rest on the bench before one bamboo grove, and Dad and I bought two coconuts.
Just as some people cannot find work, so some coconuts do not find a buyer.
Critics are often denounced as racists or "coconuts" -black on the outside but white on the inside.
Back then they were made of naturally occurring objects - coconuts, sea shells, hollow stones or similar objects filled with moss or a similar material that was soaked with animal fat and ignited.
Had I been on Little Deadman's Cay by myself, I would have gone mad fairly quickly and begun speaking to coconuts or at least banging them together to hear some noise beyond my own breathing.
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