Coconut palms are king throughout the tropics, serving as the foundation for human lives and cultures across the Pacific Ocean for centuries. However, 200 years of planting by colonial interests ...

“I am very inspired today and in love,” said 28-year-old coconut farmer Val Niño Años Batistil from Pay-as, Kadingilan, Bukidnon, as he embarked on his fruitful and productive agricultural journey.

Hawaiʻi Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity officials are going door to door in Kona Palisades on Hawaiʻi Island to ask ...

Across the Hawaiian Islands, the invasive coconut rhinoceros beetle is threatening to make Hawaii's palms disappear. Native ...

The Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) forged ties with local governments, schools, and stakeholders to boost its massive coconut planting program. The signing of the memoranda of agreement (MOA) was ...

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara are showing how abandoned coconut plantations have taken over Pacific islands, choking out many native plants, according to Earth.com.

Six hundred and thirty farmers in the Kintampo South District in the Bono East Region have benefited from the distribution of 50,000 elite hybrid coconut seedlings under President John Dramani Mahama’ ...

“Orange juice for breakfast is over,” an investor interested in creating large, fair trade coconut plantations recently joked to me. These days, coconut water is king. For the trendy and the wealthy, ...

The Coconut Federation of Ghana (COCOFeG), the nation’s largest umbrella body for coconut farmers, has presented 83,000 ...

Ghana has launched a public registration portal for farmers as part of the Coconut Seedling Distribution Initiative, a program set to distribute three million coconut seedlings nationwide and ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists at the Pharr International Bridge discovered a rare pest, a first in nation discovery, in a shipment of coconuts. “By intercepting these ...

Seabirds like these red-footed boobies do not nest in coconut palms, so the reduction of broadleaf forests would deprive the atoll of the nutrients from their droppings. (Santa Barbara, Calif.) — ...