MANILA – The Department of Agriculture is mulling the possibility of lifting the ban on exporting unprocessed coconut, Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piol said Friday.
The official announced this on the same day he confirmed that China is “interested” in sourcing coconuts from the country.
China’s coconut milk-producing Hainan province imports 200 million coconuts from Vietnam, Thailand and India, and is looking to buy more from the Philippines, the third biggest coconut producer in the world, Piol said in a statement.
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