Brooke’s Point coconut farmers receive financial aid from PCA

• Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=806710
• Monday, September 21, 2015

By Celeste Anna R. Formoso [(PNA), FFC/BNB/CARF/EBP]

PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Sept. 22 (PNA) -- Coconut farmers in six barangays in the southern Palawan town of Brooke’s Point received incentives from the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) through the Office of the Municipal Agriculturist (OMA).

According to the Municipal Information Office (MIO), the distribution of checks for the coconut farmers totaled PHP97,600 for 25 families, a few of them belonging to the province's indigenous community.

The fund is from the PCA’s Participatory Coconut Planting Project (PCPP) that gives incentives to farmers of PHP18 per new coconut tree planted and PHP22 per tree, having a total amount of PHP40 per tree.

Brooke’s Point is a coconut center, and the PCA expects the project to expand with the support from the provincial and the municipal governments.

The PCPP is a national coconut planting program that uses open pollinated varieties (OPVs) in identified idle open areas suitable for coconut planting, and in area where senile coconut trees are cut in accordance with the implementation of Republic Act 8048.

Over PHP800 million have been allotted by the PCA to its planting, replanting and fertilization programs which includes the PCPP.