While most people complain about the searing heat these days, Bosing, my suki buko or coconut juice vendor across the University of San Carlos in Talamban, smiles even as he wipes the sweat on his brow with a face towel.
Lands will be fertilized and coconut trees replanted in the next six years to revitalize the coconut industry in Southern Leyte. The aim is to raise coconut production to a volume valued at P1.4 billion by 2018, to benefit some 64,000 families.
Coconut farmers should not expect to receive any cash from the proceeds of the controversial coco levy fund that the Supreme Court recently ruled belonged to the government which must use it for the benefit of the farmers by resuscitating the struggling coconut industry.
LUCENA CITY—The continuous silence of President Benigno Aquino on the coconut levy issue could boomerang on the Liberal Party (LP) in next year’s polls, said several farmers’ groups on Tuesday who have united to campaign against the administration senatorial candidates. “We challenge Aquino to break his silence on the coconut levy issue, otherwise millions [...]
The continuous silence of President Benigno Aquino on the coconut levy issue could boomerang on the Liberal Party in next year’s polls, said several farmers’ groups on Tuesday who have united to campaign against the administration senatorial candidates.
She used to harvest 4,000 coconuts and 200 kilos of macapuno and buko each month, earning P15,000 and above from her 2.5 hectares of farm in Barangay Balele but that was before the coconut scale insects attacked and destroyed her farm.
There’s no use crying over the contentious coconut levy fund that the Supreme Court has ruled on recently.
Is a deal in the works between President Benigno Aquino and his uncle, Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco, over the coconut levy fund?
In a series of front-page articles, the Inquirer reported the plight of coconut farmers described as among the “poorest of the poor.”
A national coalition of coconut farmers’ groups on Monday assailed the looming appointment of a former legal counsel for the food giant San Miguel Corp. (SMC) as solicitor general.
Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala on Thursday declared a total ban on cutting coconut trees in Albay after complaints that coconut-tree cutting triggered landslide and floods in remote low-lying and hillside villages in the province.
LUCENA CITY—Leftist groups struggling to retrieve billions of pesos of levy collected from coconut farmers vowed to launch bigger protest actions to press the Aquino administration to act in favor of the farmers against President Aquino’s uncle, businessman Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco, tagged as the biggest beneficiary of the coconut levy. The protest actions would be [...]
LUCENA CITY—Authorities are investigating the possible link between rampant illegal coconut lumber trading in Quezon and the killing of a top Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) official in the province. Necitas Pujanes, 62, was killed on Tuesday by motorcycle-riding suspects on a national highway here as he drove his way to work. Police said a .45 [...]
