The Honey bee facilitate easy and early pollination in coconut grove with result of more fruit set and less abortion and shedding of buttons ( female flowers ) …Though 75 to 120 female flowers are formed in each inflorescence of coconut 60 to 70 % of the female flowers fall down due to many reasons one of which is ineffective pollination …
Every month one leaf and one inflorescence is formed in coconut tree …so In a year total of 12 inflorescence are formed …if 75 female flowers are produced in each inflorescence then for 12 months then a single coconut tree must bear 900 coconuts per year …But on an average our tree bear hardly 100 coconuts per tree per year …
So out of many strategies to enhance fruits setting in coconut grove one strategy is honey bee …
