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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Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 03:32:58 +0000
Former Deputy Speaker Erin Tañada questioned the move to veto a bill which would have strengthened the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA).
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2019 20:57:06 +0000
Malacañang defended President Rodrigo Duterte’s move to veto the bill strengthening the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA), as signing it would only make the PCA more vulnerable to corruption.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2019 10:58:13 +0000
Sen. Cynthia Villar on Saturday said she was not discouraged by President Rodrigo Duterte’s vetoing a bill aimed at strengthening the Philippine Coconut Authority.
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 12:57:43 +0000
MANILA, Philippines – President Rodrigo Duterte has vetoed the measure that would further strengthen the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) board, which was assigned to manage the coco levy fund.
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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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