coconut

The Niu coconut cream and meat are the base ingredient for most every food in Tonga.

Both men and women are involved with the processing of coconuts.

It is also a viable export in raw form (copra) or better yet as finished product. Ian and Vanessa Jones set up a business in Vava’u that exploits the features of the Niu, together in syncronicity with the ecology of Vava’u.

An earlier documentary provides insight into the viability and logic behind added-value production, instead of raw material supply. Lot’s of natural resources poured in the intake, let nature continue it’s course, and we have clean natural resource on the out take.