The Centre has come up with a price support scheme to procure 50,000 tonnes of milling copra from Kerala during the 2023 season. The State Government can decide the procurement date, but it should ...

Coconut farmers and traders from the provinces of Central and Western Visayas are convening May 22-23 for a seminar on "Copra" quality improvement. Philippine Coconut Authority 7 regional manager ...

IN Sitio Bundok, Barangay Walay, the Sta. Rita de Cascia Parish overlooks a landscape of coconut trees, vital to the livelihood of Padre Burgos residents. Beside the parish is the Sta. Rita ...

For too long, the wonder tree that is the coconut tree has been seen mainly as the source of copra from which crude coconut oil (CNO) is extracted, the source of a commodity that has not significantly ...

Copra is the dried white meat of a coconut. Arno Atoll, like many of the Marshall’s outer islands, supplies copra to a processing plant in Majuro. The processing plant turns the dried flesh into ...

The price of copra has started increasing in some of the main production centres due to the North-East monsoon. The prices are reported to have gone up by around Rs. 5 and have now reached Rs.83 per ...

Weeks shy of the 13th anniversary of its commissioning Pomeroon Oil Mills, owned by businessman Alfro Alphonso is facing challenges, recovery from which will take some doing and is looking to ...

The scope for Kangeyam town in Tiruppur district to regain its status as one of the biggest markets for copra and coconut oil in India is bleak, due to what the oil mills view as the “detrimental” ...

Coconut, as I wrote last week, need not be the “lazy man’s crop” if we move farmers away from the traditional product mainly derived from it, namely, smoke-dried copra for processing into coconut oil.