The recent market rates in Mumbai highlight the price details for spices and copra. Black pepper, both ginger varieties, and ...

LIPA CITY, Batangas (PIA) — Batangas Province will soon become a major player in the country’s coconut industry through a ...

Copra is an important source of income for smallholder farmers - an economic lifeline that sustains the livelihoods of ...

Domestic and export market intelligence cell (Demic) functioning at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) has forecast that copra will fetch prices above the minimum support price (MSP) this ...

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 ...

MANILA, Philippines — Local coconut oil millers are set to buy directly from copra farmers amid the continued drop in mill gate prices of the commodity. In a recent dialogue with Agriculture Secretary ...

KOCHI: While the state’s major agro-industries, including rubber, took a hit owing to various reasons which include the new GST regime, there is one industry which has reasons to cheer. The ailing ...

He attributed the tight supply of copra to increased demand for coconut by-products such as coconut powder, virgin coconut oil, and desiccated coconut. Apart from this, several powder manufacturing ...

KASARAGOD: Hard on the heels of the GST fitment panel proposing an 18% tax (from 5%) on coconut oil sold in packages less than one litre, the Finance Ministry has muddied the coconut market again with ...

For the longest time, the Philippines was the world’s biggest producer of coconuts and consequently, the largest coconut oil as well as other coconut products exporter in the international community.

Coconut farmers in the region are apparently buoyed by the local market rate of ₹130 per kg for copra, about 15 percentage higher than the procurement rate through regulated markets under Price ...

From now on, coconut farmers need not struggle for converting coconut into copra as they have a solar drier unit for conversion of copra, first of its kind in the district. It will be a boon to ...