President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. is eyeing to boost the country’s coconut exports by accelerating the modernization efforts of the coconut industry.
Efforts to boost the productivity of the local coconut industry includes replanting old and unproductive coconut trees and planting of coconut seedlings as well as the establishment of mills and other post-production facilities to process coconut by products. “We cannot allow this very, very grand opportunity for our farmers to slip by. And we have now come to the point where we have been looking at the coconut industry as an industry. And it is now time to revitalize that economy,” he added.