Tag: Coconut Farmers and Industry Development Act

DUTERTE TO SIGN RE-FILED COCO LEVY BILL – VILLAR

Post author By Hazel Chua
Post date October 1, 2019
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Senator Cynthia Villar is confident that President Rodrigo Duterte will sign the re-filed Senate Bill 1233, or the Coconut Farmers and Industry Development Act, and Senate Bill 1976, or the Strengthened Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA). Duterte vetoed the bill in February for lack of “safeguards” to prevent coco levy funds from being used unlawfully. In […]

Tags coco levy bill, Coconut Farmers and Industry Development Act, Senate Bill 1233, Senate Bill 1976, Senator Cynthia Villar, SONA, Strengthened Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA)

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HISTORIC COCO LEVY FUND MEASURE TO BENEFIT FARMERS DEPRIVED OF BENEFITS FOR DECADES – NOGRALES

Post author By Rosalie Reynoso
Post date November 26, 2018
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Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles on Sunday hailed as “a historic piece of legislation” the measure creating the P100 billion coco levy trust fund after the Senate and House of Representatives have agreed on a unified version of their respective bills, noting that “the decades-long fight of coconut farmers to directly benefit from their toil and […]

Tags Agriculture, Cabinet Secretary Nograles, coco levy fund, Coconut Farmers and Industry Development Act