From the country's fastest- growing industry, averaging 10 per cent growth per annum in the past five years, the construction sector contracted by 10 per cent in the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Incidentally, the pandemic year 2020 happens to be the 75th year anniversary of the Philippine...
Coconut farmers are questioning some provisions of the Coconut Farmers and Industry Trust Fund Act (Coco Levy Act) such as the annual allocation of portions of the P100-billion coco levy fund to several government agencies, some of which...
The Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) started the mass registration of coconut farmers to update the National Coconut Farmers Registry System (NCFRS), a concrete database of coconut farmers, ahead of the forthcoming release of the P100-billion coco levy fund. (MB FILE, Keith Bacongco) In several...
Coconut industry stakeholders are upbeat that recent trials that show coconut oil having strong potential in fighting COVID-19 may provide a much-needed boost to the industry as well as the Philippine economy as a whole. Photo credit: https://www.ucap.org.ph/home/ The Department of Science and...
CEBU CITY – The Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) embarked on a replanting project of coconuts and be paid for it as its assistance to coconut farmers whose livelihood income from the tree had gone down the drain due to COVID-19 pandemic. PCA- Bohol manager Engr. Emiliano Romero said that the...
The call not to allow the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) to handle the P100-billion coconut levy fund is growing. There’s also a call to use the funds only for the benefit of small coconut farmers. In a statement, Kalipunan ng mga Maliliit na Magniniyog sa Pilipinas (KAMMPIL) appealed for the...
