Let me start off by saying copra sucks. Coconuts are amazing and a coconut trees is referred to as the tree of life. Copra on the other hand is the worst product you can make with a coconut and an absolute disrespect to the coconut gods. 

Basically copra is the meat of an old coconut that has a large percentage of the moisture removed. After being sold and many middle men later a low quality coconut oil will be the final product.

Now when dealing with copra as a small farmer you have two options "selling strait" or "selling dry". Selling strait means strait out of the jungle usually with about 30% moisture removed. Selling dry means brings the moisture down to maybe 60% moisture removed.

Here you can see me next to my first 3 ton copra contract pickup.

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As a copra buyer I will be buying copra strait out of the jungle from small farmers. I will stock pile it like this and on sunny days we will bring the copra out to bring down the moisture level.

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Here you can see one of my friends with my father in law shoveling copra on a sunny day.

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This is my big buyer who requires me to do 3 tons (3000 kilos) of copra a month. 

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Ok so here is the secret to making profit with copra. You see my "big buyer" lets me lock in a price for 30 days this is called a contract price. The requirement is I must do 3 tons. Because my price is locked in I can now go back and buy copra under my contract price. The moment I buy the copra I know how much profit I made because My big buyer and me have a contract price.

I will let you in on another secret. Even if I am not offering the highest price in town because I own the farm the coconuts must be sold to me. So one of the secrets to being a copra buyer is to just own enough farms to ensure the fulfillment of a 3 ton contract each month.

Can you guess how many hectares of coconut farm it takes to do 3 tons of copra a month? Winner gets 2000 staked teamph tokens to their account.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwlUyn10nhM&t=41s