By WINFRIED SCHWEE
While the coconut sector has significant strengths as it provides regular albeit low incomes and sustains ecologically stable landscapes, ... Read More...
By WINFRIED SCHEEWE
If you have the opportunity to attend famers’ meetings, the picture is almost everywhere quite similar. The majority of the participants,... Read More...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) recently donated two trucks to the Sarangani Vegetables Seed Growers Multi-Purpose Cooperative (SAVESEGROW-MPC) to help impro... Read More...
Vinegar is an important part of Philippine cuisine. It is used as both an ingredient and a condiment. In her book “Tikim,” culinary historian Doreen Fernandez w... Read More...
By Edd K. Usman
A Filipino nurse, out of compassion for the poor, has developed a dressing for burn wounds that has the potential to be a big boost to the Ph... Read More...
Not everyone gets into farming voluntarily at first but there are many who come to realize that it is actually their calling.
Efrenia “Neng” Cantoneros Holt,... Read More...
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 li... Read More...
By Keith Bacongco
DAVAO CITY - Virgin coconut oil producers are elated with the "very promising" result of the VCO trials on COVID-19 patients, saying that t... Read More...
By Zac B. Sarian
It takes all kinds of events, even tragic ones, that could lead to something great. Just like when the El Niño struck in 2003 that resulted ... Read More...
By Rita dela Cruz, DA-StratComms
The Department of Agriculture through the Philippine Coconut Authority (DA-PCA) is partnering with other agencies to study t... Read More...
Coconut coir or coco coir is a fiber extracted from the coconut husk. Instead of discarding the coco coir from a harvested coconut, this can be a good, natural ... Read More...
Coconut oil is known for its multiple benefits, particularly in lowering obesity levels, battling insulin resistance which usually leads to type two diabetes, b... Read More...
The coconut is known as the tree of life, and is considered one of the Philippines’ major crop exports. However, it is still a battle for Filipino farmers to su... Read More...
According to research, the world continues to experience the massive destruction of trees. Although the planet houses trillion of trees, these have been disappe... Read More...
By Pablito P. Pamplona and April Grace D. Pamplona
According to the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Philippines has one of the lowest farm productivities i... Read More...
By Patricia Bianca S. Taculao
Following the successful inaugural staging of the World Coconut Congress (WCC) last 2018, the United Coconut Associations of t... Read More...
The Department of Agriculture’s (DA) Agribusiness and Marketing Assistance Division (DA-AMAD) of Region 8 will be promoting local coconut agribusinesses under i... Read More...
By Pablito P. Pamplona
The sweet harvest Coconut Multiple Cooperative’s (SHCMC) P25 million project, “Kaanib Enterprises Development Project” (KEDP), was re... Read More...
According to Secretary of Agriculture Manny Piñol, the Department of Agriculture (DA) will launch a program geared towards providing Philippine coconut farmers ... Read More...
By Pablito P. Pamplona
Agriculture Experts are convinced that without widespread shifting from the cultivation of low yielding traditional varieties to high ... Read More...
