KIDAPAWAN CITY – A Japanese company, which has been working with Filipino farmers for nearly 20 years, is seeking to import more innovative coconut-based food products and handicraft items in different parts of the Philippines.Cocowell, an Osaka-based company, has been producing and selling assorted coconut-based products since 2004 with a mission to help small coconut farmers in the Philippines.
During his visit to Ticar’s shop in Barangay Kalasuyan, the craftmaker demonstrated before Mizui how he makes chopsticks using his available power tools. Mizui said he has asked Ticar to produce few samples of chopsticks first and then they will evaluate in Japan before closing the deal.Ticar, a former resort worker, admitted that he is looking forward for a possible partnership with Cocowell.‘Sari-sari’ store in Osaka
The coco sugar, he said, is produced by Health Sweets, a certified organic coco sugar producer based in Panabo City, Davao del Norte.Mizui is also importing coconut milk from Davao del Norte and General Santos City and coconut milk powder from Quezon.Mizui learned about the potentials of coconut when he took up environmental science in Benguet in 2002.“I saw a lot of people picking trash for living in that very poor environment,” he recalled.
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