Copra mill ready
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for work in Marshalls
The Marshall Islands Develop
ment Authority has tentatively
agreed to buy about 6,800 tonnes of copra a year from the Gilbert Is lands and Tuvalu to process at a plant now under construction on Majuro, and scheduled for com pletion about the end of June.
Mr Charles Domnick, general manager of MI DA, estimates that a stockpile of at least 3,100 tonnes of copra is required before the plant starts crushing. In its first year of operation the plant should crush about 15,300 tonnes, which would yield about 9,200 tonnes of crude oil and about 5,100 tonnes of copra The Marshalls District is the largest copra producer in the US Trust Territory with an annual pro duction of about 7,150 tonnes.