OPINION | Hope for coconut farmers By Bernardo M. Villegas READ:
oconut farmers are among the poorest of the poor in the Philippines. Whereas, the national poverty line at the moment is on the average at about 17%, there are provinces among the 69 growing coconuts that have poverty incidence as high as 50% to 60%, especially in the island of Mindanao.
3.62 million hectares with 347 million fruit-bearing trees and a total production of 14.7 million in 2018 So what else is new? These are the usual problems faced by any of the products of the agricultural orshery sector, i.e., natural calamities, diseases, and lack of funding and technology support.
Christian, who is partly Danish and partly Norwegian, saw the potential of increasing the productivity of the coconut farms in the province of Rizal in the southern region of Palawan which is known for having some of the best soils for coconut in the whole country. At the same time, he saw the plight of the coconut farmers in that part of Palawan where there are the indigenous natives of the province.
In the case of Lionheart Farms, the initial products were coconut flower sugar, coconut nectar/syrup and coconut aminos which are mostly exported and are among those high-value products from coconut that should replace the traditional copra and coconut oil that have resulted in very limited revenues for the coconut farmers.
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