Vol. 7, Issue 2, Part B (2025)

Coconut Producer Organisations (CPO’s) are a farmer co-operative, formed through the lively institutional aid and monitoring by the Coconut Development Board. A study on assessing the socio personal impact of Coconut Producer Society was conducted in Thiruvananthapuram district of Kerala. Kilimanoor, Perumkadavila and Athiyannoor were the three blocks purposively selected for the study. A sample size of 130 respondents were selected primarily based on proportionate random sampling from each panchayat from the chosen blocks. The findings indicated that majority (58.46%) of the respondents had medium socio-personal impact. This is followed by 21.54 per cent with high and 20.00 per cent with low socio-personal impact. About 61.54 per cent of respondents had an increase in knowledge on harvest and post-harvest related aspect and 38.46 per cent of respondents had no change in knowledge on harvest and post-harvest related aspects. Slightly higher than three-fifths (61.54%) of the respondents acquired an improved skill in identifying appropriate planting material and this is followed by the skill in using coconut climber (56.15%), skill in fertilizer application (54.62%), skill on primary processing of coconut into value added products (52.31%), neera extraction skill (51.53%). Majority (90.77%) of the respondents had an increased contact with other CPS members and a meagre (9.23%) per cent of respondents opined that they had no change in their contact with other CPS members.