New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that small bottles of coconut oil should be classified as edible oil for taxation purposes, resolving a 15-year-long legal dispute between the excise ...

NEW DELHI: A tiny bottle of coconut oil--Would you use it to cook up a meal, or to nourish your hair? The seemingly trivial question is close to being answered, after winding through a tax tribunal, a ...

SALISBURY — Tom Small thought his ship had come in when he noticed a small coconut hidden among the seaweed at the high tide mark on the south end of Salisbury beach on Thursday. On closer inspection, ...

Coconut farmers are among the poorest Filipinos. A major reason is the meager assistance they get from the government. Their situation is both ironic and unacceptable, especially since the coconut ...

MANILA, Philippines — Senator Grace Poe is pushing for the guaranteed representation of legitimate small coconut farmers in the body that will be created to manage the multi-billion coco levy funds ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. From coconut milk to coconut water, our seemingly insatiable appetite for all things coconut comes at an environmental cost. More than 9 ...

Instead of detaining small farmers for tapping neera (palm nectar), the state government should allow them to tap and sell the drink or set up collection centres to procure it from them, Narayanasamy ...

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There are two claimants to the coconut levy shares (San Miguel Corp.’s shares). The coconut farmers, through the government, and Eduardo Cojuangco Jr. (ECJ). The Supreme Court has spoken: The shares ...

'For coconut farmers, the concern is that until now they have hardly benefitted from the levy fund, which was litigated over 3 decades to determine its true ownership' Coconut farmers are among the ...