Makapuno (macapuno) seedlings available at PCRDF (Philippine Coconut Research and Development Foundation). Tall type at PhP 650.00 each...

Cocofed scholars One of the greatest achievements of the Philippine Coconut Producers Federation Inc. (COCOFED) at the height of its glory in the 1970s was its scholarship program for the brilliant children of indigent coconut farmers nationwide. If I am not mistaken, it had funded more than 20,000 scholars from 1975 to 1986. The program stopped in 1986, after the Edsa I Revolution, which saw the sequestration of all assets funded by the controversial coconut levy collections

(Repost) While public perception of what the levy really is has remained unclear, a lot of people have been talking loudly about it. There has been a rush of farmers’ groups staking a claim to the sequestered fund – majority of them unheard of before to have had anything to do with the coconut industry. Surprisingly, these new levy claimants, purportedly “small coconut farmers” who declare themselves “victims of injustice,” have for unknown reasons persuaded other groups, h

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