MANILA, Philippines - Coconut fiber and peat or dust could be turned into gold. Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala said processing coconut fiber and peat into geo-textiles and organic fertilizer ...

The Department of Agriculture (DA) and the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) are undertaking this year a P30-million joint project that will involve the establishment of fiber processing zones in ...

Export income from coconut-based products up 9% to US$ 665mn in 2020 CB identifies coconut exports among the five major contributory export commodities Coconut exports, mainly led by fiber and ...

Researchers in Texas are making car parts out of coconuts. A team at Baylor University has made trunk liners, floorboards and car-door interior covers using fibers from the outer husks of coconuts, ...

A team of researchers who have identified a variety of low-cost products that can be manufactured from coconuts in poor coastal regions have now developed a way to use coconut husks in automotive ...

It’s not often that a car, let alone a car part, gets credit for saving a village. But that could be the case with the trunk load floor in Ford Motor Co.’s (Dearborn, Mich.) 2012 model year (MY) Focus ...

In the early 90s, when the then dean of Bicol University’s College of Agriculture, Dr. Justino Arboleda, first heard of a report naming Bicol as the second poorest province in the Philippines, he was ...