BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Generosa Gonato's mobile phone beeped with a warning for the coconut farmer in the southern Philippines to be vigilant against bud rot, a common disease that is ...

Strengthening value addition, innovation, and market linkages in the coconut sector took center stage during the recent Provincial Investment Forum on the Coconut Industry, positioning Surigao del Sur ...

LINAMON, Lanao del Norte (PIA) — The Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA)-10, in partnership with the provincial government, launched a Coconut Seed Farm at the Metro Iligan Regional Agro-Industrial ...

The super typhoon that slammed through the central Philippines laid waste to a vast region of coconut farmland, eradicating in one fell swoop the livelihoods of tens of thousands of smallholders.

A woman walks through rows of coconut trees at Barangay Talaungan West, Cavinti, Laguna, in the Sierra Madre mountain range. It is home to the Pagsanjan Falls, which is locally known as Cavinti Falls.

MANILA, Philippines — Just as Thailand renamed its agriculture agency the “Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives” to ensure that cooperatives will be used as the key to its agriculture success, we ...

Coconut farm workers in Samal Island, Davao del Norte continue to struggle due to the low buying price of coconuts. Currently, the farmgate price of coconut ranges from P10 to P13 per kilo while copra ...

The average international prices of commodities exported and imported by the Philippines rose in February, according to a World Bank report.  Figures from the World Bank showed that the average ...

A project to provide coconut farmers with advice over their mobile phones aims to help them cash in on a growing market and lift them out of poverty BANGKOK, May 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - ...