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President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Thursday ordered the Philippine Coconut Authority to organize a plan to develop and revitalize the nation’s coconut industry.
The agency recommended the issuance of a Memorandum Circular to direct all concerned national government agencies and instrumentalities and urge local government units to support the project. Mr. Marcos told the PCA not to focus on “political terms,” noting that the project must be continued even after his presidency, if necessary.
“Due to budgetary constraints, the agency has only managed to plant or replant about 1 to 3 million coconut trees, which is far from the estimated 34 million trees that it needs to replant. The PCA said to plant 100 million trees in the next five years, a whole-of-nation approach is needed.” The Philippines has a total area of 3.6 million hectares planted with coconut trees or about 27 percent of total agricultural land. It has 340.6 million coconut-bearing trees capable of producing 14 billion to 15 billion nuts annually.
The agency is planning to strengthen the project in the next 10 years to 15 years to further rehabilitate the coconut industry, which has been in a state of decline during the past decade due to the negative effects of climate change and natural disasters.
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