The Belize Bureau of Standards in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute held the Stakeholder Sensitization on Coconut Standard: Specification for Coconut Oil Workshops on 26th September 2017,…
The establishment of a coconut nursery in Hanover will increase the availability of seed nuts to farmers on the west of the island After several setbacks experienced in the 1980s, the coconut industry is…
Jamaica is one of ten countries, currently benefitting from the regional Coconut Industry Development for the Caribbean project, being funded by the European Union and implemented by the International Trade Centre (ITC)…
COCONUT Industry Development for the Caribbean (CIDC) has been spread out across eleven countries across the Caribbean and Guyana is one of them. The project started since 2015 and it…
Key pest issues • The critical importance of Red Palm Mite (RPM), associated with production losses >75% in Trinidad and clearly causing widespread damage elsewhere. • The continuing threat of…
There are 4 types of coconut palms; Tall, Dwarf, compact dwarf and semi-tall and at least 400 varieties. SPROUTING THE SEED: Stick it in moist soil - half buried -…