The project aimed to strengthen coconut-based agro-ecosystem and promote livelihood enhancement opportunities through community initiative in order to strengthen the ecological base of farming, create local sink for green house gases and to ensure continuous availability of biomass.
The project was a necessity because in Pattankkad, the project site, coconut based activities particularly spinning constitute major source of income and employment for over 60% of the families in six panchayats out of eight and over 80% of these families fall below the poverty line.

The project has been initiated by PEEKAY TREE CROPS DEVELOPMENT FOUNATION in Pattankkad in Kerala State, covering eight panchayats.
The project will cover 1,500 farm households with an effective area of 250 ha under medicinally important tree species. It will be establishing production units with the self help groups for regular income and employment, and empower farmers and socio ?economically disadvantaged women to earn more income.

The project strategy envisaged in the project is to improve the quality of environment and conserve biological diversity through development over a period of time of coconut based agro-ecosystem models.

The direct beneficiaries include 1,740 farmers with holdings of less than one ha, 200 women and 100 men belonging to 100 families falling below poverty line, 170 women belonging to 17 SH Groups.The indirect population of over 2, 00,000people will derive indirect benefits from the project.