Thiruvananthapuram: Coconut palm still remains a tough tree to be conquered by machines even as the land of coconut is in desperate search for one due to the grim shortage of manual climbers.
Various devices developed by innovators to scale the tall tree proved far from successful during a competition-cum demonstration organised by Kerala Industries Department at a palm garden near here yesterday.
Of the 12 gadgets shortlisted for the contest, just a single one could progress beyond the half-way height of the tree but still failed to reach the summit and pluck the nuts.
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