Philippine Coconut Authority sets sights on boosting coco production to cut imports
Manila is implementing a program that aims to boost the productivity of the local coconut sector to reduce the Philippines’s copra imports.
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Manila is implementing a program that aims to boost the productivity of the local coconut sector to reduce the Philippines’s copra imports.
In this podcast, we talk to Arnee Villa and Gina Yambot, the people behind Radical Kitchen Inc., which sells coconut-based/plant-based organic products such as coconut jerky and fruit rolls. Know the story of how this innovative firm, which caters to the domestic and international markets, is able to uplift the lives of the country’s coconut farmers.
Favorable weather would allow the country’s coconut production to increase to 2.244 million metric tons (MMT) in copra terms this year, according to the United Coconut Association of the Philippines Inc. (Ucap).
The country’s coconut production in 2016 likely settled at 12.59 million metric tons (MMT), 15 percent lower than the 14.81 MMT produced in 2015, according to the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA).
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