PH coco industry ain’t a tough nut to crack

The 2003 Biofuels Act mandates that CME should constitute 5 percent of diesel by 2020. Today, CME level is still at 2 percent.

When the Alyansa Agrikultura brought up the topic with an undersecretary of the Department of Energy seven years ago, the official said it would be considered only if we could guarantee that the increased coconut revenues would go to farmers and not to agribusiness. This kind of reasoning is inconsistent with a unity approach.

Through the PCA’s public-private coconut-coffee program, new plant mortality rate dropped from between 30 percent and 45 percent to 15 percent and 20 percent because of the coconut-coffee fertilization approach.In a June 26 column, John Tria wrote: “Incentivizing the creation of related industries can help our coconut industry go beyond copra and mean jobs for millions more.

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