在马来西亚,椰子是名列第四的重要经济作物。栽培品种多属高种,年平均椰干产量每英亩(1英亩为6.07亩)约为5担。目前,正在大力推广象牙海岸曾用马来西亚矮红种×西非高种杂交的“玛哇”(Mawa)杂种,该杂种产量约为马来西亚高种的三倍,椰农反应良好。如果抚育管理适当,杂种植株在定植后四年就开花结果(马来西亚高种则要六年),果实早熟,椰肉厚。株高介于高种与矮种之间。平均每年开花十三次,每个花序有雌花10—25朵(马来西亚高种的为10—12朵)。在初产期,单株年平均产果70—80个,且产量与年俱增,10龄以上可达150—160个。 In Malaysia, coconut is the fourth most important cash crop. Mostly cultivated species are highly cultivated, with an average of about 5 coconuts per acre (6.07 acres per acre). Mawa hybrids, which used to breed Malaysian dwarf species × West African highs, are currently being vigorously promoted in the Ivory Coast, producing about three times as much hybrids as Malaysian highs and responding well to coconut farmers. If the nursery management is appropriate, the hybrid plants will blossom four years after planting (six years in Malaysia) and the fruit is premature and coconut thick. Plant height is between high and low species. The average flowering thirteen times a year, each inflorescence 10-25 flower female flowers (10-12 Malaysia high species). In the primiparous period, the annual average yield per plant is 70-80, and the output increases year by year, reaching 150-160 more than 10 years old.