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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 w‘Coconut farmers are grieving’
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 and Paras are just two of the thousands of residents of the province who depend on coconut production for their livelihood and are now barely making ends meet. The culprit is plunging prices of copra, or dried coconut meat, which had gone down to as low as P15 per kilogram from nearly P40 per kilogram early this year. Cuaresma, a 59-year-old ...Keep on reading: ‘Coconut farmers are grieving’ Read more