THE commercial production of coconut water can help the ailing domestic coconut industry by providing another revenue source for marginalized farmers, Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala.

“Coconut farmers are the poorest in the agriculture sector. But this time, we will use coconut to change the lives of coconut farmers in the country through the non-traditional coco water,” he said at the inauguration last Friday of the Coco Water Processing Technology Pilot Testing and Business Incubation Facility in Camarines Sur.

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