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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY MIKE LEYRAL
A workers puts to dry kernels of copra, the flesh of the coconut, on December 9, 2014 in a valley of Hiva Oa in the Marquesas Islands archipelago. 10,000 tons of copra are delivered annually to the Tahiti oil mill in Papeete to produce 6,000 tons of coconut oil, refining 350 tons for Monoi oil producers, as a less pure oil is produced for making cakes or margarine. AFP PHOTO / GREGORY BOISSY
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