Benefits will be passed on to Areca growing farmers and the members of their immediate families of Indian Nationality.
- To investigate on alternative uses of Arecanut which would fetch an International market as a raw material for the production of either in Medicine, Confectionery, Colour or in chewing gum.
- To find out a remedy for the yellow leaf disease which are being affected in the Arecanut gardens in Karnataka and Kerala States in order to save the Arecanut farming community.
