Throughout history, coconuts have played a significant role in the economic, cultural and political lives of Sri Lankans, its colonial predecessors, and its trading partners. The consumption of coconut palm products in Sri Lanka was largely by locals up until the late 1800s. Although the British colonialists enjoyed toddy (a pre-distilled version of arrack), they were not famous early on in the colonial period for using coconuts for edible uses. However, from the latter half of the 1800s, they began exporting coconut products such as desiccated coconut, coconut oil, and coconut fiber. The pioneers of the desiccated coconut export trade are Henry Vasseur, the entrepreneur, and P.V. Appleby, the engineer. Desiccated coconut was first exported from Sri Lanka in 1891 and the total exported amount for that year was 189 metric tons. By 1911, that number reached 14,493 metric tons. Desiccated coconut’s demand especially from the candy industries in the United Kingdom, United States, and Western Europe began to boom in the early 1900s. The first Sri Lankan to start desiccated coconut production was John Clovis de Silva, a planter and chief partner of J.C. de Silva & Co. Sri Lanka had a virtual monopoly of the coconut trade until the Philippines entered the scene in 1927. Throughout the 1900s, there were several other coconut producing nations that entered the trade. Today, the three largest exporters of coconut products are Indonesia, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka.

Ceylon Xiang Bo Exporters (Pvt) Ltd is engage in exporting coconut base products all around the world. From Coco fiber up to Coco chips, Coco peat, and even industrial products are in the range of our exports in which we export a range of coconut based products all around the world.