“Faced with record global demand, and a coconut supply chain that is threatened by underperforming senile trees, escalating natural disasters, and farmers’ lack of technical, market and financial access, the coconut industry faces pending supply chain disruption”.
USAID
O&P supports the Mission of Coconut Knowledge Center as a global change agent for fair coconut supply chains. We are hopeful that this new initiative will shine brightly over the problems facing the coconut industry, and that the power-for-change of the few large corporate buyers of coconut copra may be engaged with growing improved farm gate economics that will work to regenerate smallholder incentives to widescale replanting of coconut.
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