Axelum Resources, the country’s leading fully-integrated manufacturer and exporter of coconut products, is expecting its coconut milk powder segment to fuel revenue growth. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, the firms aid organic coconut milk powder is a fine, creamy white...
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...
Coconut farmers are now the poorest people in the agriculture sector, much poorer than when they were 30 years ago. This was the assessment of Danny Carranza, a coconut farmer and member the Kilusan Para sa Tunay na Repormang Agraryo at Katarungang Panlipunan (Katarungan). (MB FILE, Keith...
Getting helpless over the Senate version of the proposed Coco Levy Act, coconut farmers will attempt to seek for the intervention of Senator Bong Go, the longtime aide of President Rodrigo Duterte, about the “unfavorable” provisions of the proposed bill that sought to release the P100-billion...
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...
DAVAO CITY - Virgin coconut oil producers are elated with the "very promising" result of the VCO trials on COVID-19 patients, saying that the development could bring more opportunities to coconut farmers. Recently, Ateneo de Manila professor Fabian Dayrit and Equilibrium Integrative Health Clinic...