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...
By Julio P. Yap Jr.
The coconut sap sugar or cocosugar industry is now considered a “sunrise industry” and is expected to be the new superstar product in the... Read More...
By Pablito P. Pamplona, Ph.D. and April Grace D. Pamplona
The Philippines has 3.56 million hectares (ha) of coconut lands where traditional production practi... Read More...
Case studies that provide hope for the Philippine coconut industry.
By Pablito P. Pamplona, Ph.D.
Part 1, which discussed the three Philippine government po... Read More...
Part Two of “Transform Coconut Farmers from Poverty to Prosperity by Revising Government Policies.”
By Pablito P. Pamplona, Ph.D.
1. Hybridization gave birt... Read More...
By Pablito P. Pamplona, Ph.D.
The Philippine coconut industry occupies 3.56 million hectares (ha), which is almost one-third of the cultivated agricultural l... Read More...
The prevailing impression is that coconut farmers are the poorest farmers in the country. But that should not be so, if only the practical ideas of the speakers... Read More...
