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    Pili Nut Industry - Albay

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    1) Albay province aims to become the world-class hub for pili products in the Philippines by investing in pili production and processing. 2) Currently, pili farmers face challenges like difficulty harvesting and lack of post-harvest facilities. The stakeholders agreed to actions like expanding accredited pili nurseries and establishing a shared processing center. 3) With support from the Department of Agriculture, Albay aims to mechanize harvesting, produce additional pili products like oils, and establish more processing centers to improve the industry.

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    Pili Nut Industry - Albay

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    1) Albay province aims to become the world-class hub for pili products in the Philippines by investing in pili production and processing. 2) Currently, pili farmers face challenges like difficulty harvesting and lack of post-harvest facilities. The stakeholders agreed to actions like expanding accredited pili nurseries and establishing a shared processing center. 3) With support from the Department of Agriculture, Albay aims to mechanize harvesting, produce additional pili products like oils, and establish more processing centers to improve the industry.

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    1) Albay province aims to become the world-class hub for pili products in the Philippines by investing in pili production and processing. 2) Currently, pili farmers face challenges like difficulty harvesting and lack of post-harvest facilities. The stakeholders agreed to actions like expanding accredited pili nurseries and establishing a shared processing center. 3) With support from the Department of Agriculture, Albay aims to mechanize harvesting, produce additional pili products like oils, and establish more processing centers to improve the industry.

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    Pili Nut Industry - Albay

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    1) Albay province aims to become the world-class hub for pili products in the Philippines by investing in pili production and processing. 2) Currently, pili farmers face challenges like difficulty harvesting and lack of post-harvest facilities. The stakeholders agreed to actions like expanding accredited pili nurseries and establishing a shared processing center. 3) With support from the Department of Agriculture, Albay aims to mechanize harvesting, produce additional pili products like oils, and establish more processing centers to improve the industry.

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    Albay positions roads and post-harvest


    as PH’s world- facilities.
    “Basta pili, Albay ’yan, and
    class pili subsequently, Bicol (Pili is
    inherent to Albay, and
    product hub subsequently to Bicol),”
    Elegado said. However, he
    with DA-PRDP’s stressed the need to upgrade
    commodity the province’s quality standards
    by investing on nutritional
    investment plan analysis and technically and
    Date Published: April 5, 2017 scientifically proven shelf-life
    testing to capture both the local
    To be the Philippines’ world- and international markets.
    class pili products hub is
    Albay’s vision as the province In addition, DA-Bicol’s High
    explores opportunities for pili Value Crops Development
    product development in Program (HVCDP) Coordinator
    partnership with the Rosita Imperial recommended
    Department of Agriculture’s investing in accredited pili
    Philippine Rural Development nurseries to address scarcity in
    Project (DA-PRDP). supply of planting materials.
    In a Provincial Commodity
    Investment Plan (PCIP)
    Stakeholders’ Consultation
    attended by key players in pili’s
    value chain in Albay on March
    14, pili farmers, traders, and
    representatives of government
    agencies shared their insights
    about the current situation of
    the pili industry in the province
    particularly the constraints and
    development gaps that need to DA Bicol RFO HVCDP
    be addressed. Coordinator Rosita Imperial
    Farmer-leader Bertito stresses the importance of
    Laganson shared that currently, investing in accredited pili
    pili farmers and farm owners nurseries to ensure
    benefit from their farm produce sustainability of supply of
    on a minimal basis due to planting materials in the
    difficulty in harvesting while province. (Photo by Annielyn L.
    Jacinto Alexis Elegado, Baleza, DA-PRDP RPCO V
    provincial director of InfoACE Unit)
    Department of Science and The pili stakeholders envision
    Technology-Bicol cited the pili to mechanize pili harvesting
    industry’s problem on and product processing and
    generate additional income by fairs and exhibits. Currently, we
    investing on accredited pili want to expand the production
    nurseries and exploring other and processing of pili pulp oil
    pili products like pili pulp oil and and pili elemi oil which has high
    pili elemi. They also visualize international demand,” Vibar
    the establishment of several said. She also discussed the
    processing centers for both potential of pili accessories,
    food and non-food pili products furniture and home decoration
    in Albay. production using pili shells.
    At the PCIP Stakeholders’
    Consultation, the stakeholders
    agreed to expand and accredit
    existing pili nurseries in the first
    and second districts of Albay,
    develop a curriculum and NC II
    accreditation for skilled pili nut
    cracker, depulper and desheller
    as well as establish a shared
    pili service facility.
    According to Provincial
    Agricultural Services (PAS)
    Senior Agriculturist and Pili
    Focal Person Arlene Vibar, lbay’s Provincial Agricultural
    PAS has organized the Albay Services (PAS) Senior
    Pili and Cacao Industry Agriculturist and Pili Focal
    Association (APCIA). APCIA is Person Arlene Vibar discusses
    a federation of provincial pili the initial steps taken by the
    producers, traders, processors PLGU-Albay to attain its vision
    and assemblers. This of becoming the country’s
    federation eyes the world-class pili hub and how its
    development of 1,500 partnership with DA-PRDP can
    commercial pili plantation-type further take the province into
    farms in Albay, one farm that vision. (Photo by Annielyn
    planted with 100 pili trees. L. Baleza, DA-PRDP RPCO V
    APCIA is a recipient of a Good InfoACE Unit)
    Manufacturing Practices (GMP) The province has 800 hectares
    and Hazard Analysis and planted to pili. With the
    Critical Control Points assistance of DA, the provincial
    (HACCP)-compliant pili government has distributed
    processing center worth P3 asexually propagated and
    million from DA-Bicol. With grafted pili planting materials in
    funding support from PRDP, various areas in Albay.
    the province targets to procure
    pili processing equipment. Reports from the Philippine
    Statistics Authority show that in
    “Our pili processors now 2015, Bicol is the country’s
    participate in international trade major pili producer with 6,258
    tons or 85 percent of the PPMIU-Albay I-PLAN Staff
    domestic production. Albay Engr. Percival De Villa
    follows Sorsogon as the top pili- discusses the PCIP to the
    producing province with 24 stakeholders to solicit their
    percent share. From 2008 to insights on investment
    2015, Albay recorded the requirements to develop the pili
    highest growth rate of area industry in Albay. (Photo by
    planted and harvested to pili Annielyn L. Baleza, DA-PRDP
    with 4.21 percent per year. RPCO V InfoACE Unit)
    The PCIP is a three-year rolling Currently, PRDP-Bicol’s local
    consensus plan between the and national level planning (I-
    DA and the local government PLAN) component has
    unit (LGU) based on the value generated P1.5 billion-worth of
    chain analysis of priority investments from DA and other
    commodities. The PRDP, a six- agencies out of PCIPs on top of
    year project designed to PRDP investments.
    establish an inclusive, value
    Sixty-eight percent of the total
    chain-oriented and climate-
    investments were initially
    resilient agri-fishery sector, that
    funded in 2016 to 2017 while
    promotes the mainstreaming of
    the remaining 32 percent were
    the PCIP in the design,
    identified by the agencies for
    implementation, monitoring,
    inclusion in the 2018 to 2019
    and evaluation of policies and
    planning and budgeting
    programs of LGUs and
    exercises. (Annielyn L. Baleza,
    concerned nongovernment
    DA-PRDP RPCO V InfoACE
    institutions. The Project also
    Unit)
    harmonizes the LGUs’ plans
    and programs with DA,
    concerned government
    agencies, civil society
    organizations, and private
    sector.

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