Coconut farmers in at least nine towns in the Visayas and Mindanao will now be assured of higher income using more efficient drying facilities set up through the assistance of the Philippine cement ...

A Class 6 boy from Shakthi Residential School in Mangaluru, Karnataka has won first prize at the CBSE National Science Model Exhibition for his project, 'smart copra dryer.' It is an integrated system ...

VELLORE: The Gudiyattam Taluk Agricultural Producers Cooperative Marketing Society is all set togo high-tech as it becomes the first society in the district to provide solar dryer facility to its ...

he Tirumaraikadu Iyarkai Vivasayigal Sangam Kootamaippu (Tirumaraikadu Bio-farmers Federation) comprising 21 farmers clubs involved in producing copra in a cluster of villages near Vedaranyam has been ...

Based on the success of the solar dryer set up at Vedaranyam, the Agriculture Engineering Department has set up second solar dryer at a village near Nagapattinam. The dryer, set up at Semangalam ...

Mangaluru: A class VI student of a private residential school in the city has won the first prize for his project,‘smart copra dryer’, at the CBSE National Science Model Exhibition held at Gurugram, ...

Cargill Philippines is proposing a plan to improve the quality of copra and prevent a permanent loss by the local coconut industry in the wake of more stringent quality standards imposed by the ...

ZAMBOANGA DEL SUR, 20 June (PIA) – In a bid to revive the copra industry, Timuay Esteban Bugol, an 80-year-old tribal leader, expressed his desire for copra prices to return to the levels seen during ...

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.