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Coco farmers seen to benefit from China coco market
Dumaguete City (30 June 2005) -- Coconut farmers in Central Visayas get a boost from the growing export potential of the Philippine's coco coir fiber product to China with its wide market to implement its desertification project.

China is currently using the Philippine coco coir fiber to make their barren lands eligible for planting trees.

As the Department of Trade and Industry accelerates its efforts to expand the export entry of the Philippines's coco products to China, over five million coconut farmers in the country will directly benefit from the move.

Aurora Lambino of the Philippine Coconut Authority bared that Negros Oriental has the biggest producers of the raw fiber material in the towns of Bacong and Guihulngan.

The Bacong coco farmers' cooperative produces 50 metric tons of raw fiber daily and 20 metric tons everyday from Guihulngan.

The raw fiber produce of both cooperatives is also sold to the same company, says Lambino.

In Cebu, slightly over 3,000 farmers from Aloguinsan town will soon produce the raw fiber taken from coconut husks for export to China.

The raw fiber will be sold at P7/kilo to the Philippine Sodum Coco Fiber Co. based on an exclusive contract between the company and the Aloguinsan farmers cooperative.

The company that will export the raw material to China may either use the raw material into the finished coco coir fiber product or for the manufacture of mattress and furniture.

The government has lined up several activities this year to promote the country's export of coconut products to China. (PIA)

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