The Centre has come up with a price support scheme to procure 50,000 tonnes of milling copra from Kerala during the 2023 season. The State Government can decide the procurement date, but it should ...

Coconut farmers and traders from the provinces of Central and Western Visayas are convening May 22-23 for a seminar on "Copra" quality improvement. Philippine Coconut Authority 7 regional manager ...

The price of copra has started increasing in some of the main production centres due to the North-East monsoon. The prices are reported to have gone up by around Rs. 5 and have now reached Rs.83 per ...

Weeks shy of the 13th anniversary of its commissioning Pomeroon Oil Mills, owned by businessman Alfro Alphonso is facing challenges, recovery from which will take some doing and is looking to ...

Copra is the dried white meat of a coconut. Arno Atoll, like many of the Marshall’s outer islands, supplies copra to a processing plant in Majuro. The processing plant turns the dried flesh into ...

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 ...

Onam and Ramzan festival demand in Kerala pushed up coconut oil prices in Kerala this week. The oil was steady at Rs 62 a kg (Rs 60 last week), whereas copra was ruling at Rs 4,400 a quintal (Rs 4,200 ...

The district panchayat, in association with the Kerafed, is launching a copra procession unit at the State Coconut Nursery complex in Karunagapally. District panchayat secretary K. Anil Kumar said the ...

Pollachi, located in the Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu, is known as the Coconut City of India because it is one of the ...

Coconut, as I wrote last week, need not be the “lazy man’s crop” if we move farmers away from the traditional product mainly derived from it, namely, smoke-dried copra for processing into coconut oil.

Farmers appealed to the cooperatives to procure coconut instead of copra and sought permission to lift silt from irrigation tanks to revitalise cultivable land at the agriculturists’ grievance day ...