Papua New Guinea Coconuts - 2013

Papua New Guinea Coconuts - 2013

Post PNG, in its effort to continually promote Flora & Fauna, will be releasing yet another stamp issue featuring coconut fruits.

Coconuts, as featured are nutritious and are a staple diet for many island nations in the tropics. In this issue, the four postage stamp sets feature green coconuts, the four sheetlet stamps feature dry coconuts, while the souvenir sheet features a new shoot.

Post PNG, in its effort to continually promote Flora & Fauna, will be releasing yet another stamp issue featuring coconut fruits.

Coconuts, as featured are nutritious and are a staple diet for many island nations in the tropics.

In this issue, the four postage stamp sets feature green coconuts, the four sheetlet stamps feature dry coconuts, while the souvenir sheet features a new shoot.  Coconut, of which copra is produced, is a long-time commodity contributing to the economy of Papua New Guinea through copra exports and is regulated under the government’s own Copra Marketing Board which falls under the Ministry of Agriculture.

Coconut provides a nutritious source of juice, meat, milk and oil that has fed and nourished many the world over. In many island countries, coconut is the main staple-diet. The milk is used in almost all the local dishes as enrichment substance. The shells and husk are also useful to the enterprising individuals. The shell can be carved into water containers, drinking cups, soup scoops, hair combs or shirt buttons. The husk, once cut in half together with the shell, can make very good flower pots. Having released an issue on copra already, Post PNG now decided to dwell further into featuring the fruit itself. Featured below are features on postage stamps with respective denominations assigned.

STAMP SET
K4.00 - green coconuts 'cocos nucifera'
K6.00 - coconut husking 'exocarp'
K8.70 - coconut juice 'liquid endosperm'
K12.00 - coc0nut meat 'endosperm'

RETAIL PRICE K30.70

SHEETLET
K1.30 - 'dry coconut ‘cocos nucifera’
K1.30 - ‘endocarp’ inner shell
K6.00 - 'meat ‘endosperm
K8.70 - ‘apple’ (cotyledon)

RETAIL PRIE K17.00

SOUVENIR SHEET
K10.00 - The stamp feature the inner shell (endocarp) and the outer husk of the nut with a new shoot (cocos nucifera). Coconut provides a nutritious source of juice, meat, milk and oil that has fed and nourished many all over the world. On many island countries, coconut is the main staple-diet being used in almost all the local dishes.