Mangaluru : Central Arecanut and Cocoa Marketing and Processing Cooperative Ltd. (CAMPCO) has begun efforts to send 10 tonnes of tender arecanut to China by this year-end on trial basis for making mouth freshener, according to its president Konkodi Padmanabha.

Addressing presspersons here on Monday he said that a delegation of Kou Wei Wang Company, which manufactures mouth freshener from tender arecanut, has arrived on a second visit to the State. The delegation met CAMPCO authorities on Saturday and has placed demand for 32,000 quintals of processed (boiled and then dried) tender arecaut. The delegation was now on a two-week tour of arecanut growing districts in the State.

Mr. Padmanabha said that the company used only husk of tender arecanut for making tender arecanut. Later it threw the nut which was not being made use of for any product.

The company has offered to pay Rs. 160 per kg of processed tender arecanut.