The Goa Legislative Assembly has passed a bill which reclassifies coconut as a tree ensuring legal protection for it. The Assembly, on the last day of Monsoon session yesterday, passed the Goa, Daman and Diu, Preservation of Trees Act, 1984 to regulate felling of coconut trees.
Goa Forward Party, a partner in the Manohar Parrikar-led government, had promised to reclassify coconut as a tree. The previous Laxmikant Parsekar-led government had changed classification of coconut tree to a palm.
