Copra is dried coconut meat. Copra is one of the oil derivative products are very important, because it is a material for making coconut oil and its derivatives. to make good copra oil which required approximately 300 days and weight about 3-4 kg.
Copra processing technique there are four kinds, drying with sunlight, smoke curing or drying, indirect drying, drying use solar thermal power.
Good Copra only have contain of water 6% - 7%, so not easy attacked by pest. Damage that occurs in copra is generally caused by bacteria and fungi attack. That attack easily occure if high content of water in copra, humidity reaches 80% or more and the atmosphere temperature reached 30°C. Cendawa which often attack copra is a Rhizopus sp, Aspergillus niger, and Penicillium glaucum. There are four copra quality, which include highgrade copra and mixed copra.
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