The first is by letting them dry by the heat of the sun, which takes a longer time. The other and faster way is by heating them. A bamboo house or shack without walls is built at about 3 feet above the ground. It has only a roof and a floor. The halved coconuts are piled on the floor. Some coconut husks are piled beneath the shack but not too close to burn the shack. A torch is used to set fire on these piled coconut husks but they are monitored carefully. More fire is set if it turns low. The halved coconuts turn brown and separate from the shells when ready for scooping. Just enough heat from medium to low is used to avoid burning. When the fruits at the bottom are done, the fire is taken out and the coconuts are allowed to cool. When cool, the coconuts are taken to another working area. When some are not too well done, they must be separated and heated again until they turn brown and cooked enough for scooping. Harvesters scoop the cooked coconuts from the shell by using a handmade and wooden semi-pointed instrument, which curves at the tip. Dried coconut meat is scooped with it from the shell. When finished, harvesters cut the meat into 4 to 6 pieces for every halved coconut. The product, copra, is placed inside a sack for selling. The sacks are brought by the carabao-driven cart to the main road where they can be transferred to some other transport means if the coconut plantation is distant. From there, the sacks of copra are brought to the where the merchants can buy them (Batanes).
Copra Production and Consumption Decline
The country's new record in 2010 at 2.8 million tons went down to 2.3 million tons or by almost 20% because of the drought effects of El Nino (Corpuz 2012). This level is expected to remain from 2012 as coconut palms must take what is termed as "biological rest" of three consecutive years after the heavy yields from 2008-2010. This has led to an increase in imports of 100,000 tons in 2011 and seen to remain until local production can go up again. It must, however, be noted that the 2010 high copra production levels were achieved despite El Nino. That year was the third consecutive time of excellent copra yield. The Department of Agriculture responded by resorting to aggressive replanting efforts and price adjustments (Corpuz).
Region 5 -- Bicol Region
This region is located at the southernmost edge of Luzon, measuring approximately 18,000 kilometers (PSA 2014). It is composed of 6 provinces, one chartered city, 6 component cities, 107 municipalities and 3.471 barangays or villages. There are 14 congressional districts in this Region at present. Its population as of 2010 was 5,420,411 with an annual growth rate of 1.46%. The provinces are Albay, Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, Catanduanes, Masbate and Sorsogon. The capital of the region is Legaspi City. The economy of the region is still basically agricultural as about 40% of its total workforce is in the agricultural sector. Its other major economic contributing sector is mining. The two major geothermal fields, which contribute a large amount of power to the Luzon Grid, are located in this Region (PSA).
Its regional economy growth rate as of 2012 was 7.1% and poverty incidence among families in the same year was 32.3% (PSA 2014). It is the 7th poorest among the country's regions. As of 2012, its gross regional domestic product was P216,873,375, with an 8.9% increase over the preceding year's P199,233,506. Agriculture, fishery and forestry were the leading sectors, which accounted for P52,731,633 of the overall gross regional domestic product. The sectors, however, did not register any increase from the preceding year. Coconut ranked 5th in crop production for 2012 at 1,204,459 metric tons or a 3.2% growth from the previous year's 1,201,707. Palay topped the list. Coconut ranked fourth in the crop area harvested list at 453,501 hectares with a 0.2% growth from the preceding year at 452,681 hectares (PSA).
Camarines Sur is located at southern-eastern part of Luzon and in the middle of the Bicol Peninsula (PSA 2014). It is politically subdivided into 5 congressional districts, one chartered city, one component city, 35 municipalities and 1,063 barangays or villages. Its land area of 5,502 square kilometers is about 30% of the Bicol Region and 1.83% of the entire Philippines. As of the latest provincial census on May 1, 2010, its population was 1,822,371 or approximately one-third of that of the Region. The average growth rate between...
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