House taps remaining 2019 budget to assist coconut farmers 0 SHARES Share it! He said emergency measures should be implemented to help ease the plight of the coconut farmers. “Our coconut farmers are in desperate situation and due to copra price fluctuation, farmers are no longer harvesting coconuts. There are 2.6 million coconut farmers and farmworkers in the country. “Millers giving preferential treatment to coconut farmers’ cooperatives and the PCA providing shared service facilities in the form of warehouses which will be used as copra aggregating points,” he said.

Source: Manila Bulletin November 13, 2019 03:25 UTC