Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 23:25:38 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — ’Farmers’ groups doubt whether President Rodrigo Duterte’s proposal to invest the P100-billion coconut levy fund in a trust fund could provide the money to those who need it the most—the small coconut farmers.
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Sen. Francis Pangilinan refiled on Monday a measure seeking to establish a trust fund for coconut farmers, although President Rodrigo Duterte had already vetoed an earlier version the bill.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Fri, 03 May 2019 21:31:49 +0000
LUCENA CITY — Otso Diretso senatorial candidates on Friday vowed to speed up the return of the multibillion-peso coconut levy fund to the country’s coconut farmers once elected into office.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 21:32:59 +0000
Senatorial candidate Imee Marcos expressed concern that coconut farmers might sink deeper into poverty because copra prices had rendered their main source of livelihood more untenable.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 21:35:47 +0000
MAITUM, Sarangani — Violeta Cuaresma, who owns a 1.3-hectare land devoted to coconut production, lives next to a store that buys coconut products. It has closed because of low prices. Brando Paras, who maintains a 5-hectare coconut farm, stopped hiring workers to harvest nuts. He now just lets the nuts fall from the trees. Cuaresma […]
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2018 23:20:43 +0000
The coconut levy was a tax imposed by President Ferdinand Marcos on the produce of coconut farmers between 1973 and 1982, supposedly to develop the coconut industry.
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All 18 senators present on Monday passed on the final reading a measure that will provide coconut farmers greater representation in the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) board, which was tasked to manage the coco levy fund.
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