copra

Increasing the CME content of all fuels is part of the solutions the Department of Agriculture (DA) came up with to address the falling prices of copra.

The decline in CNO prices resulted in lower copra prices as it tracks the movement of vegetable oil prices.

The buying price of copra has plunged almost 60 percent from its level in 2017.

This approval is based on the recommendations of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) which is an expert body that takes note of the cost of production, trends in the domestic and international prices of edible oils, overall demand and supply of Copra and Coconut oil, cost of processing of Copra into Coconut oil and the likely impact of the recommended MSPs on consumers while recommending the MSPs.

Based on a Philippine Statistics Authority report, in 2017, the provincial receipts from copra was at P1.4 billion and that it has about 103,000 people relying on the industry.

Organic matter can be used to estimate EE and GE in copra byproducts.

The industry ministry has three categories for coconut industry in two classes upstream industry with products including fresh fruits and copra (black and white copra) ; intermediate industry with products including coconut shells, copra Meal, desiccated coconut; and downstream industry producing cooking oil, coconut cream/milk, activated carbon (AC) , etc.

This kind of project can also generate co-benefits boosting the local copra industry which is an important component of village-based economic development, currently in decline across the Pacific.

Most of the coconut trade in the South Pacific is in copra, a dehydrated form of the coconut flesh that is later industrialized into oil, but which has little value for the farmers/harvesters.

The people earn cash income farming cocoa, copra, vanilla and other crops on their land outside the protected zone.

"Here, for example, the copra industry is having major problems at the moment and the government is shoring up the price and it is costing a fortune.